{"id":1034,"date":"2014-12-20T23:52:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T23:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2014-12-20T23:52:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T23:52:17","slug":"somerton-tamale-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"Somerton Tamale Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I schedule this event as a must-do whenever I&#8217;m in the area.  Somerton, a small town south of Yuma, closes off it&#8217;s downtown and a bunch (about 50) of tamale makers sell their products for charity.  The event gets bigger every year, and the parking hassle does, too.<\/p>\n<p>One approach is to sample around, grabbing a different flavor from different vendors (each tamale is $2), including something ridiculously exotic.  But tamales are filling so I went with the plan of not necessarily eating, but buying to take home and freeze.  One from here, two from there, throw in one of those.  Fill up a bag.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have tamales for weeks.  I didn&#8217;t label them so whenever I pull something out of the freezer I won&#8217;t know what it is.  No matter, I have never met a tamale I didn&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p>One day a year, unfortunately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I schedule this event as a must-do whenever I&#8217;m in the area. Somerton, a small town south of Yuma, closes off it&#8217;s downtown and a bunch (about 50) of tamale makers sell their products for charity. The event gets bigger every year, and the parking hassle does, too. One approach is to sample around, grabbing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}