{"id":376,"date":"2014-11-11T21:37:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T04:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/?p=376"},"modified":"2014-11-11T21:50:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T04:50:39","slug":"the-road-to-quetzalcoatl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Quetzalc\u00f3atl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDiego, the best place in the world to find yourself in is in a library,\u201d C\u00e9sar always tells me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">C\u00e9sar has been bringing me to the Aztl\u00e1n Library for two years, ever since I turned seven and our family moved to this neighborhood. C\u00e9sar and I have spent a lot of our free time in this library. And actually, we spend so much time here, C\u00e9sar calls Aztl\u00e1n our home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">Aztl\u00e1n Library is modeled after the Temple of Quetzalc\u00f3atl in the ancient city of<br \/>\nTeotihuac\u00e1n\u2014\u201cThe Place Where Men Become Gods.\u201d Big egret birds point the<br \/>\nway to Aztl\u00e1n, so it is easy to find the road that leads to the intersection of Luis<br \/>\nValdez View and Gloria Anzald\u00faa Way\u2014C\u00e9sar calls it the \u201cbellybutton\u201d\u2014where<br \/>\nAztl\u00e1n sits like a mystical mountain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TO CONTINUE READING, PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK FOR:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/The-Road-to-Quetzalcoatl-with-Illustrations.pdf\">THE ROAD TO QUETZALC\u00d3ATL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDiego, the best place in the world to find yourself in is in a library,\u201d C\u00e9sar always tells me. C\u00e9sar has been bringing me to the Aztl\u00e1n Library for two years, ever since I turned seven and our family moved to this neighborhood. C\u00e9sar and I have spent a lot of our free time in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[12,8,9,13,11,30,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"http:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alternativepublications.ucmerced.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}