{"id":4522,"date":"2017-03-20T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T18:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4522"},"modified":"2018-03-05T16:08:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T00:08:45","slug":"colour-bomb-manzanillo-mexico-03212017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4522","title":{"rendered":"Colour Bomb \u2013 Manzanillo, Mexico \u2013 [03\/21\/2017]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Mexico and I have an interesting relationship; even after a few years of coming here, I still don\u2019t necessarily feel comfortable<\/em>, here. Perhaps it\u2019s something as simple as the fact that I don\u2019t speak the language (which is totally my own fault) , or the fact that physically I stick out like a sore thumb \u2013 seriously you don\u2019t get more \u2018gringo\u2019 than me.<\/p>\n

But despite the fact that I may not always be comfortable here, there is one thing about Mexico I will always absolutely love: the colour. North of the border, we have a tendency to gear towards \u201csafe\u201d colours. Muted greens, browns, blacks, all very businesslike. Throw someone wearing bright pink down the street and they\u2019ll get funny looks. Here, it\u2019s a totally different story. There is colour everywhere<\/em>, spilling out of windows, on statues, bright blue, vivid yellows, \u00a0around every corner.<\/p>\n

Which is a good thing for me, who has realized recently that she\u2019s developed something of a fear of colour. Places like this make me realize how much I miss it.<\/p>\n

After all, I guess, deep down, I never was a muted green kind of person<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mexico and I have an interesting relationship; even after a few years of coming here, I still don\u2019t necessarily feel comfortable, here. Perhaps it\u2019s something as simple as the fact that I don\u2019t speak the language (which is totally my … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-of-the-border-2017"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-1aW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4919,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions\/4919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}