{"id":402,"date":"2015-03-16T12:58:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T11:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/?p=402"},"modified":"2015-03-25T19:46:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:46:26","slug":"caracas-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/caracas-1960\/","title":{"rendered":"Caracas 1960"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s8\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">I arrived by plane from Hawaii to Caracas in 1960. Staying at the Hotel Tamanaco on a hilltop with its views across t<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s8\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">he valley was exciting. It\u00a0was\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s8\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">all women with\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s8\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">beehives, men<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s8\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s8\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">in smart<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s8\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">\u00a0\u2018Mad Men\u2019 suits and ties, Chevies and Cadillacs all in the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s8\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">intoxicating musical<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s8\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">\u00a0atmosphere of salsa and merengue. Soon we moved to a house in the country club district\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s8\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">and I<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s8\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">met an English boy who showed\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s8\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">me some<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s8\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">\u00a0Chuck Berry riffs. The rest is my history&#8230;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived by plane from Hawaii to Caracas in 1960. Staying at the Hotel Tamanaco on a hilltop with its views across the valley was exciting. It\u00a0was\u00a0all women with\u00a0beehives, men\u00a0in smart\u00a0\u2018Mad Men\u2019 suits and ties, Chevies and Cadillacs all in the\u00a0intoxicating musical\u00a0atmosphere of salsa and merengue. Soon we moved to a house in the country [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}