{"id":156,"date":"2016-06-24T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyesherman.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2016-07-02T01:15:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T01:15:56","slug":"pensamientos-on-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyesherman.com\/pensamientos-on-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensamientos on Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old San Juan comes alive at night. The droves of cruise-ship tourists file back onto their boats, the sun eases up on the\u00a0stifling rays it reserves\u00a0especially for the Caribbean, and the quick beat of <em>reguet\u00f3n<\/em>\u00a0begins to dance\u00a0around every corner.\u00a0Conversation\u00a0on the cobblestone\u00a0streets transforms from English observations to Spanish exclamations; naturally, life between the colonial facades&#8211;adorned in hues as colorful\u00a0as their inhabitants&#8211;gets quite a bit louder. Night falls and the cool kiss of the ocean weaves its way into the countless\u00a0bars and restaurants dotting\u00a0the<em>\u00a0<\/em>tiny walled city, where revelers are drawn in by\u00a0happy-hour specials like three-for-$5 Medalla <em>cervezas<\/em>\u00a0and two-for-one <em>mojitos<\/em>.<em>\u00a0<\/em>This is the Old San Juan that day visitors don&#8217;t see.<\/p>\n<p>Having the chance to spend a month on one of the most lively blocks of Old San Juan means that I will come to know the rhythm of this city in a special way. Already, I&#8217;ve been surprised by how familiar and yet how foreign Puerto Rico feels; it&#8217;s America, but it&#8217;s not. You don&#8217;t need a passport to travel here, but a translator would come in handy. A Wendy&#8217;s sits across from a nameless stand\u00a0in the middle of Plaza de Armas that is run by an elderly\u00a0woman who doesn&#8217;t speak a lick of English. (But with a couple dollars, some pointing, and a &#8220;por favor,&#8221; that\u00a0<em>mallorca<\/em>\u00a0will soon be yours.) Pizza is popular, but so is <em>mofongo<\/em>. There is a recognizability to this place\u00a0that makes it comfortable\u00a0for first-time explorers, yet with\u00a0<em>coqu\u00ed<\/em> frogs and El Yunque rainforest and glowing bio bays, there&#8217;s enough quirkiness\u00a0to appease even the most adventurous of travelers.<\/p>\n<p>And that we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old San Juan comes alive at night. 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