{"id":80727,"date":"2026-10-31T07:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/dia-de-los-muertos-celebrations-rise-from-the-dead-as-ice-arrests-continue-its-important-to-bring-joy-in-dark-times\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T07:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:54:49","slug":"dia-de-los-muertos-celebrations-rise-from-the-dead-as-ice-arrests-continue-its-important-to-bring-joy-in-dark-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/dia-de-los-muertos-celebrations-rise-from-the-dead-as-ice-arrests-continue-its-important-to-bring-joy-in-dark-times\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00eda de los Muertos celebrations rise from the dead as ICE arrests continue: \u2018It\u2019s important to bring joy in dark times\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After canceling events in 2025, US cities including Henderson, Kentucky, are reviving public Day of the Dead events<\/p>\n<p>Julia, a 19-year-old born in the US, and her parents, undocumented immigrants from Mexico, enjoyed attending the D\u00eda de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration each year in Henderson, Kentucky, and selling aguas frescas, horchatas and a sweet bread traditionally eaten on the Mexican holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, her family also built an <em>ofrenda<\/em>, or altar, featuring flowers and a violin, to honor her grandfather, who played the instrument and died in 2023 in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/31\/dia-de-los-muertos-ice-arrests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After canceling events in 2025, US cities including Henderson, Kentucky, are reviving public Day of the Dead events Julia, a 19-year-old born in the US, and her parents, undocumented immigrants from Mexico, enjoyed attending the D\u00eda de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration each year in Henderson, Kentucky, and selling aguas frescas, horchatas and &#8230; <a title=\"D\u00eda de los Muertos celebrations rise from the dead as ICE arrests continue: \u2018It\u2019s important to bring joy in dark times\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/dia-de-los-muertos-celebrations-rise-from-the-dead-as-ice-arrests-continue-its-important-to-bring-joy-in-dark-times\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about D\u00eda de los Muertos celebrations rise from the dead as ICE arrests continue: \u2018It\u2019s important to bring joy in dark times\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}