{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"KZYX News","title":"Dia de los Muertos celebrates departed loved ones","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":389,"description":"November 2, 2010 — The city of Ukiah came alive for Dia de los Muertos, with live music, freshly-baked bread, and little girls in colorful skirts with skulls and flowers painted on their faces. Mayor Juan Orozco, who has a full time job as a math teacher, also took on the role of event planner in the lead-up to the celebration. I\r\n“We started the event last year, with just a little altar at the City Hall,” he recalled, ducking under an awning out of the rain as Mariachi Hernandez regaled the crowd with strings and horns. “And so we thought we would go all out this year. And every year I suspect will be better and better.”\r\nLinda Jacinto is an educator who promotes culture through the bilingual newspaper Dos Mundos. She took a few minutes as the event was getting underway to describe the scene. “You can definitely get a little bit of a feel of what it’s like for people when you’re in Mexico,” she noted. “You’ll see the flowers, so we have the marigolds up on the altars. You’ll see offerings on the tables as well, set up as an altar. You see people smiling, doing arts and crafts. We’re following all the safety protocols, we’re keeping our masks on, it’s an outdoor event. The music is starting to play, so it makes it more vivid, more alive, and that’s what Dia de los Muertos is all about. It’s just to have that hope, have that faith, that life continues, even though you don’t see a body. You don’t see someone here, but their essence is here, you’re connected, you’re part of the cosmos, you’re part of the universe, so you are definitely here forever. And that's the message of Dia de los Muertos: that you will forever live in someone's heart and someone’s memory and somenes’ being.”\r\nUkiah City Councilwoman Josefina Duenas added that the worldwide pandemic has brought a shared grief to all of humanity. That makes it more important than ever to rejoice in the memories of the many people who have been lost in the last year and a half.\r\n“We were speaking about what has...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xZpAumwbhFUpJUYcwaQ1-q6snzOyqAm13l7cW6AWPCM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMzkz/NjAwNjc2OWMyZmFk/YWY2YTdmYjI5M2Mz/YWMxNy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}