{"id":140,"date":"2025-12-31T22:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:38:09","slug":"intermezzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/intermezzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermezzo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25-12-31-15-52-56-132_deco-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6503873700893743;width:438px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25-12-31-15-52-56-132_deco-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25-12-31-15-52-56-132_deco-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25-12-31-15-52-56-132_deco-768x1181.jpg 768w, https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25-12-31-15-52-56-132_deco-998x1536.jpg 998w, https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25-12-31-15-52-56-132_deco-1331x2048.jpg 1331w, https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25-12-31-15-52-56-132_deco-scaled.jpg 1664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn&#8217;t this cute???  I&#8217;d look so good in it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of those places I always see while walking, but never go inside (why would I?), so this place&#8217;s story was totally unknown to me until I read this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/travel\/mcallen-thrift-stores-rio-grande-valley\/\">Texas Monthly article<\/a> about McAllen&#8217;s cultural scene.  They made the wedding dress in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cr8K88UcO0s&amp;list=RDCr8K88UcO0s&amp;start_radio=1\">Bad Bunny video<\/a>!   Wow!  That&#8217;s so neat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a little surreal to read this article because it&#8217;s like insight into a parallel world I&#8217;m adjacent to, but never around.  Some places I go to, some places I don&#8217;t.  Some reasons are pretty serious, actually, and some are just, when I&#8217;m in the area, I feel too sweaty\/thirsty\/broke.   The distinction is important, but it ends in fundamentally the same result &#8212; that&#8217;s not somewhere I go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel very grateful for places I can just go and space out and be.  Not coincidentally, they are spaces that embrace ambiguity.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I have a fantasy of staying at Casa De Palmas for a week, sitting at the balcony, enjoying the good air with a nice iced coffee.  Doesn&#8217;t that sound nice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t this cute??? I&#8217;d look so good in it! This is one of those places I always see while walking, but never go inside (why would I?), so this place&#8217;s story was totally unknown to me until I read this Texas Monthly article about McAllen&#8217;s cultural scene. They made the wedding dress in this Bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}