{"id":638,"date":"2012-06-15T19:06:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dachispa.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2012-06-09T14:08:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T14:08:41","slug":"telling-stories-through-holiday-snaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dachispa.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Telling stories through holiday snaps"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a few photos I took which remind me of something I learnt or appreciated about Cuba. They may not be great pictures, but they tell me a personal story. \"\"<\/a> This shop window is a case in point. I had been told that there are no advertising hoardings in Cuba – which is true – with the exception of ‘inspirational’ slogans on billboards all over the country. Perhaps as a result, shop windows were pretty basic – with an eclectic mix of products, none of which were displayed in a particularly enticing fashion. This was a noticeable exception – with unexpected products. Who knew household cleaning aids could be used to dress a shop window with such brio?<\/p>\n

And here is another example of an unusual use of an everyday product. \"\"<\/a> Look closely and you will see that it is a combination of a blanket and a towel, twisted to look like a man holding a baby. Most of the hotels we stayed in had chambermaids who practiced ‘towel art’ with swans, fans and weird towers – but this was by far the most creepy. We were almost afraid to undo it.<\/p>\n

And finally, because I was told it was almost a trademark of Cuba \"\"<\/a> we have the 1960’s ‘old timers’. For us, they are classics – for the Cubans, who only recently have been allowed to sell them, they are an essential part of their transport system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a few photos I took which remind me of something I learnt or appreciated about Cuba. They may not be great pictures, but they tell me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dachispa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dachispa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dachispa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dachispa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dachispa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/dachispa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/dachispa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dachispa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dachispa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dachispa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}