{"id":1160,"date":"2019-10-16T22:04:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T22:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site115.blogs.americavip.com\/2019\/10\/16\/shopping-2\/"},"modified":"2020-08-04T10:08:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T10:08:32","slug":"shopping-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/2019\/10\/16\/shopping-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOPPING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/116\/files\/sites\/116\/2019\/10\/Atocha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1157\" src=\"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/116\/files\/sites\/116\/2019\/10\/Atocha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/116\/files\/sites\/116\/2019\/10\/Atocha.jpg 750w, http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/116\/files\/sites\/116\/2019\/10\/Atocha-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are many shops in the renovated downtown area of Ponce that have local arts and crafts. The Atocha Pedestrian Mall runs along Calle Cristina just off the city&#8217;s central Plaza Las Delicias. It&#8217;s been one of Ponce&#8217;s main shopping areas for decades. There&#8217;s not a whole lot here, but it&#8217;s fun to walk around, and the shops and offerings are a throwback to a simpler time.<\/p>\n<p>For artisans&#8217; work, try El Palacio del Coqu\u00ed Inc. (Calle Marina 9227), whose name means &#8220;palace of the tree frog.&#8221; This is the place to buy the colorful veijantese masks (viewed as collectors&#8217; items) that are used at carnival time. Ask the owner to explain the significance of these masks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many shops in the renovated downtown area of Ponce that have local arts and crafts. The Atocha Pedestrian Mall runs along Calle Cristina just off the city&#8217;s central Plaza Las Delicias. It&#8217;s been one of Ponce&#8217;s main shopping areas for decades. There&#8217;s not a whole lot here, but it&#8217;s fun to walk around, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puerto-rico-en","category-shopping","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}