{"id":201,"date":"2014-03-06T15:48:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entremundosrevista.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/06\/what-is-a-guate-gringo\/"},"modified":"2015-09-30T20:15:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:15:01","slug":"what-is-a-guate-gringo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/uncategorized-es\/what-is-a-guate-gringo\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IS A GUATE-GRINGO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HARRY THOMAS DANVERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Truly, is seems that a merging of cultures of different languages and customs, is at best, impossible. I refer you to the Prince by Machiavelli. This could be dictated by climes; one cold and<br \/>\none warm. Apparently this weighs heavily on they population on the population who inhabit these distinct regions. The former, of necessity retain a kind of remote hospitality, while the latter reflect<br \/>\nthe cordiality of southern sun.<br \/>\nSo be it. If we were allowed to sift time, place ad even cultures, I am a witness to this phenomena. That is because I came to Latin America to live, when I was not quite 23 years of age. I was born in the States; attended college and sailed merchant ships in between. But Guatemala ended up my last port of call and therefore I consider myself a Guate-Gringo.<br \/>\nIt was here that I learned the art of living as well as the plastic arts at the ESCUELA NACIONAL DE ARTES PLSTICAS in Guatemala City. My wife was with the ballet corps and I was writing novels. I was lso introduced to the Popol Vuh, which many years later I did my own<br \/>\ntranslation. What a perfect paradise I found myself in, for now I was able to extend one art to the other. That is to say both literature and painting. My wife posed (in ballet tights) in the drawing class,<br \/>\nwhere I labored for seven years. It is slightly lamentable to mention that my teacher was Juan Antonio Franco; that Max Gaul was the director, that Zipacna de Leon was a fellow student or that<br \/>\nTsso was present at all the exhibitions, since they are all dead now.<br \/>\nBut what is life if not the merging of defined and undefined existence? Are we not the instance of creation? Our language barriers can be overcome with a little effort, so what remains is<br \/>\nthe compatibility with one\u00b4s environment.<br \/>\nI am a Guate-Gringo because I am very happy in my Briar Patch. Here I found art and life, along with a legacy of history, which has kept me busy in investigating it. In short, if I were to define what Guate-Gringo is, I would have to say\u2026someone who prays for the welfare of his adopted country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRY THOMAS DANVERS Truly, is seems that a merging of cultures of different languages and customs, is at best, impossible. I refer you to the Prince by Machiavelli. This could be dictated by climes; one cold and one warm. Apparently this weighs heavily on they population on the population who inhabit these distinct regions. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-es"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}