{"id":747,"date":"2013-07-01T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/the-bracelet\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:49:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:49:53","slug":"the-bracelet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/01\/the-bracelet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bracelet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the novel, Gabriela is a Cuban-American woman who places a coin she finds in her favorite bracelet. &nbsp;As I posted previously on the blog, everyone who is Cuban, or has Cuban relatives, knows and has worn bracelets made especially for them. &nbsp;I have one, my sister has one, my mother has one, and my grandmother, great-grandmother, and so on had one. &nbsp;Here is the bracelet that was part of the cover, my mother&#8217;s. &nbsp;And no Cuban bracelet is any good without the <i>azabache, <\/i>the onyx nugget on the right, which is traditionally worn to ward off the &#8220;evil&#8221; eye. &nbsp;The box next to the cameo is a relic keepsake box. &nbsp;It is usually used with saints&#8217; relics or with images of them or of Christ.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-v8I8OQHPx-Y\/UdFpAqspobI\/AAAAAAAAALU\/GeP9ulSHy9k\/s1600\/P4090053.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P4090053.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the novel, Gabriela is a Cuban-American woman who places a coin she finds in her favorite bracelet. &nbsp;As I posted previously on the blog, everyone who is Cuban, or has Cuban relatives, knows and has worn bracelets made especially for them. &nbsp;I have one, my sister has one, my mother has one, and my &#8230; <a title=\"The Bracelet\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/01\/the-bracelet\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Bracelet\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-pics","category-just-your-regular-info","category-welcome-to-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.webcraftersdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}