{"id":5691,"date":"2014-02-02T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2014-02-02T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T16:24:19","slug":"viva-cristo-rey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5691","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Viva Cristo Rey&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/americas\/21593493-rural-values-endure-industrial-heartland-saddle-up-kneel-down\">The Economist<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BEFORE dawn on January 4th the mesquite trees around Jos\u00e9 Reyes Morin\u2019s farm are lit up with Christmas lights. Inside the house, breakfast is eaten by candlelight. Mr Morin, a stickler for the old ways, doesn\u2019t much believe in using electricity at home for anything other than religious occasions.<br \/>&nbsp;Appetites sated, a score of cowboys, one young woman and your (less young) correspondent mount scraggy horses. \u201cViva Cristo Rey,\u201d (\u201cLong Live Christ the King\u201d) shouts Mr Morin, silver-buttoned comandante of the group, as the riders set off on a three-day pilgrimage to the 23-metre (75-foot) statue of Cristo Rey, high on a hill in the very centre of Mexico. That cry could once have got him killed as a Catholic reactionary. Today it is a call to rural traditions of faith and endurance in Mexico\u2019s industrial heartland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist: BEFORE dawn on January 4th the mesquite trees around Jos\u00e9 Reyes Morin\u2019s farm are lit up with Christmas lights. Inside the house, breakfast is eaten by candlelight. Mr Morin, a stickler for the old ways, doesn\u2019t much believe in using electricity at home for anything other than religious occasions.&nbsp;Appetites sated, a score of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5692,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions\/5692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}