{"id":387,"date":"2008-12-30T23:52:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T03:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2008-12-30T23:52:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T03:52:42","slug":"the-sounds-of-san-cristobal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2008\/12\/the-sounds-of-san-cristobal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sounds of San Crist\u00f3bal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-390\" title=\"San Cristobal de las Casas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dscn1383-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dscn1383-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dscn1383.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>Early tomorrow morning, after almost two weeks here, I leave San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas, Mexico, for a few days in Washington, D.C. It has been a very peaceful trip and such a gift to be with family here. To share a sense of what I&#8217;ve been experiencing all this time, here is a list of the sounds we&#8217;ve been hearing again and again from our rented house on the east end of town:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>tourist drum circles<\/li>\n<li>roosters, 24 hours<\/li>\n<li>rapping hammers of construction workers<\/li>\n<li>blasting ranchera music from one place or another<\/li>\n<li>children<\/li>\n<li>dogs barking<\/li>\n<li>a crying animal that has lost a fight<\/li>\n<li>the loudspeakers of the water delivery trucks<\/li>\n<li>engines of cars and trucks and motorcycles of all ages and conditions<\/li>\n<li>bird tweets<\/li>\n<li>announcements through unintelligible loudspeakers<\/li>\n<li>unexplainable loud booms<\/li>\n<li>noisy chains dragged behind the gas delivery trucks<\/li>\n<li>church bells (fireworks may be imminent)<\/li>\n<li>fireworks during holidays, large and small, day and night<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t make it seem to sound overly noisy. Look up to the stars at night and everything seems to fall silent. Goodbye, city!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-389 aligncenter\" title=\"San Cristobal de las Casas fireworks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dscn1390-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dscn1390-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dscn1390.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-390\" title=\"San Cristobal de las Casas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dscn1383-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dscn1383-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dscn1383.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>Early tomorrow morning, after almost two weeks here, I leave San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas, Mexico, for a few days in Washington, D.C. It has been a very peaceful trip and such a gift to be with family here. To share a sense of what I&#8217;ve been experiencing all this time, here is a list of the sounds we&#8217;ve been hearing again and again from our rented house on the east end of town:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>tourist drum circles<\/li>\n<li>roosters, 24 hours<\/li>\n<li>rapping hammers of construction workers<\/li>\n<li>blasting ranchera music from one place or another<\/li>\n<li>children<\/li>\n<li>dogs barking<\/li>\n<li>a crying animal that has lost a fight<\/li>\n<li>the loudspeakers of the water delivery trucks<\/li>\n<li>engines of cars and trucks and motorcycles of all ages and conditions<\/li>\n<li>bird tweets<\/li>\n<li>announcements through unintelligible loudspeakers<\/li>\n<li>unexplainable loud booms<\/li>\n<li>noisy chains dragged behind the gas delivery trucks<\/li>\n<li>church bells (fireworks may be imminent)<\/li>\n<li>fireworks during holidays, large and small, day and night<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t make it seem to sound overly noisy. Look up to the stars at night and everything seems to fall silent. Goodbye, city!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-389 aligncenter\" title=\"San Cristobal de las Casas fireworks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dscn1390-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dscn1390-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dscn1390.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,93,70,75],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-family","tag-lists","tag-music","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}