{"id":13718,"date":"2017-12-12T06:37:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T11:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/?p=13718"},"modified":"2020-12-27T11:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T16:17:14","slug":"festivaldesantotomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/festivaldesantotomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Santo Tom\u00e1s is Guatemala&#8217;s Amazing Celebration of Acrobatics and Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nGuatemalans honor their patron saint, Santo Tom\u00e1s, on the winter solstice in the town of Chichicastenango. Events throughout the week include parades, firework shows, and traditional dances. The festival includes Mayan traditions, and the grand event, the Palo Volador (an ancient Mesoamerican ceremony), is where fireworks illuminate participants dressed in colorful costumes who climb ropes attached to long wooden poles. Learn more about attending the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maskmuseum.org\/chichi-st-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Festival of Santo Tom\u00e1s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americantesol.com\/\">American TESOL offers a certification to teach English abroad<\/a>\u00a0so individuals can attend these exciting events in a sustainable and responsible way.\u00a0 Learn more about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/teach-in-Guatemala.htm\">living and working in Guatemala<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemalans honor their patron saint, Santo Tom\u00e1s, on the winter solstice in the town of Chichicastenango. Events throughout the week include parades, firework shows, and traditional dances. The festival includes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1122],"tags":[1891,180,1932,2224,305],"class_list":["post-13718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-go-teach-abroad","tag-teachabroad","tag-teach-abroad","tag-teach-abroad-series","tag-teach-english-in-guatemala","tag-teaching-english-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13718"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15838,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718\/revisions\/15838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}