{"id":470,"date":"2006-12-04T16:41:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T20:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killkuato.com\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2009-04-28T17:44:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T21:44:05","slug":"la-ciguanaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->La Ciguanaba<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><strong>Monday,  December 04,  4:41 PM &#8211; marco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong> so my friend Pat wanted an interpretion of &#8220;no me mandas la ciguanaba&#8221;-I told this to the 2 Salvadoran OR nurses right before they hit the lights.<\/p>\n<p>The ciguanaba is a salvadoran scary folktale about a witch like lady that looks for men in the jungle, tempting them with her big &#8220;chiches&#8221; they get close then it&#8217;s too late to run.-she curls up into a real old witch and her chiches grow to her toes.<br \/>\nthere are others such as the cadejo, carreta chillona, and others and since El Salvador is like a family to me, I knew the OR staff could relate-thats when they laughed and then I woke up in recovery room-with no recollection that 9 hrs had past and kuato was gone.<\/p>\n<p>The context in English would not work that well, it would be too dark, &#8220;hey guys don&#8217;t send me the boogey man, or worse, don&#8217;t send me the reaper&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find any good google pix of the ciguanaba but a link yes!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_471\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-471\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-471\" title=\"ciguanaba\" src=\"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ciguanaba.jpg\" alt=\"The Salvadoran Joke reference I told the OR staff-the Ciguanaba! more info @ tinyurl.com\/y464sd \" width=\"350\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ciguanaba.jpg 350w, https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ciguanaba-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Salvadoran Joke reference I told the OR staff-the Ciguanaba! more leyendas here.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After my phone conversation with my bud Dan, I was thinking about balance. when you hear the word balance..what do you think of&#8230;like now?..<\/p>\n<p>a balerina, elephant with one foot on a bucket..acrobat, balance beams,<\/p>\n<p>thats what I used to imagine,<br \/>\nnow its images of slippin in the shower, or tripping over a rottweiler  chain.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, December 04, 4:41 PM &#8211; marco so my friend Pat wanted an interpretion of &#8220;no me mandas la ciguanaba&#8221;-I told this to the 2 Salvadoran OR nurses right before they hit the lights. The ciguanaba is a salvadoran scary folktale about a witch like lady that looks for men in the jungle, tempting them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[48],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuato.ixtabai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}