{"id":97,"date":"2019-08-21T20:50:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T20:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bombamarile.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:15:00","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/index.php\/en\/2019\/08\/21\/hello-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Bomba Maril\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A bit of our story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bombaMarile-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">It is easy to miss the warmth of latin culture in a place that is so far from everything, like Utah. It was the need to connect with other Puerto Ricans and latinxs who are passionate about Puerto Rican folklore, that united what are now the Bomba Maril\u00e9 group members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a bomba workshop offered in Utah on November 2017 by H\u00e9ctor Lugo and Shefali Shah, instructors of \u201cBay Area Bomba y Plena Workshop\u201d, we started meeting weekly so that we could study bomba musicality and dance. With a lot of patience and optimism, we continue to study so that we can represent Afro-Puerto Rican culture with the respect it deserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is said that \u201cmaril\u00e9\u201d is a combination of the words \u2018mar\u2019, which means \u2018sea\u2019 in Spanish, and the word \u2018ile\u2019, which means \u2018home\u2019 in Yoruba. The name makes us think of the place we love so much, Borinquen: the birthplace of bomba, and the cause of our union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of our story. It is easy to miss the warmth of latin culture in a place that is so far from everything, like Utah. It was the need to connect with other Puerto Ricans and latinxs who are passionate about Puerto Rican folklore, that united what are now the Bomba Maril\u00e9 group members. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/index.php\/en\/2019\/08\/21\/hello-world-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is Bomba Maril\u00e9&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}