{"id":486,"date":"2014-12-21T17:12:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2016-01-23T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T11:38:18","slug":"mexican-cortesias-mexicanas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/mexican-cortesias-mexicanas\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Courtesies\/Cortes\u00edas Mexicanas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexico is a paradoxical country, where people can at times be brusque, sharp, smart-alecky, but more often show an elaborate, amiable courtesy.<\/p>\n

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M\u00e9xico es un pa\u00eds parad\u00f3jico, donde la gente a veces puede ser brusca, ac\u00e9rbica, listilla, pero m\u00e1s a menudo te tratan con una cortes\u00eda elaborada.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Parque-Mexico-3-edited\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In the Colonia Condesa, a district of largely-early 20th-century houses, many art deco-inspired, that’s one of the most\u00a0attractive, easygoing, tranquil and nowadays, consequently, most fashionable in\u00a0Mexico City, there is the Parque M\u00e9xico. It occupies the site of a former racetrack, which had taken over in turn part of the former estate of a Spanish Countess, the Condesa<\/em> who gave the district its name. Oval in shape, following the form of the track, it’s one of the best-used\u00a0green spaces in a city that doesn’t have many of them, occupied by strollers, readers, families and a whole industry of young boys who walk\u00a0the dogs of affluent local residents.<\/p>\n

It was made into a park in 1927. Its builders, as well as filling it with\u00a0benches, art deco fountains, a fine art deco clock and an open-air theatre named after Charles Lindbergh (who visited Mexico City in December 1927), scattered around the park\u00a0a series of large plaques with suitably courteous advice to users on how best to\u00a0employ the new public space. With a charm and\u00a0style that’s unique\u2026<\/p>\n

En la Colonia Condesa,\u00a0un barrio de casas la mayor parte\u00a0de la primera mitad del siglo veinte, muchas en estilo art deco, que es uno de las zonas m\u00e1s atractivas, tranquilas y, por tanto, actualmente, m\u00e1s deseable en la Ciudad de M\u00e9xico DF, hay el Parque M\u00e9xico. Ocupa el terreno\u00a0de un antiguo hip\u00f3dromo, que se construy\u00f3 a su turno en parte de la antigua finca de una condesa espa\u00f1ola, la que di\u00f3 su nombre al barrio. De forma ovalada, siguiendo las l\u00edneas del hip\u00f3dromo, es uno de los espacios verdes m\u00e1s apreciados de una ciudad que no tiene muchos, aprovechado por paseantes, lectores, familias y toda una industria de chicos que sacan a pasear los perros de los residentes locales. <\/em><\/p>\n

Se construy\u00f3 el parque en 1927. Sus constructores, adem\u00e1s de llenarlo con bancos, fuentes y un gran reloj art deco y un teatro al aire libre dedicado a Charles Lindbergh (qui\u00e9n visit\u00f3 a M\u00e9xico DF en diciembre de 1927) esparcieron a lo largo del parque una s\u00e9rie de grandes\u00a0se\u00f1ales en cemento con consejos de urbanidad a los usuarios, formuladas, naturalmente, con cortes\u00eda exquisita, sobre las mejores maneras de comportarse en el nuevo espacio p\u00fablico.\u00a0Con un encanto y estilo \u00fanicos\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Parque-Mexico-1-edited\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Parque-Mexico-2-edited\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And maybe the best of all\u2026<\/p>\n

Y quiz\u00e1s el\u00a0mejor de todos\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Parque-Mexico-5-edited\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course this all has an educational function\u2026<\/p>\n

Por supuesto todo esto tambi\u00e9n tiene funciones educativas\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Parque-Mexico-6-edited\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And sets out to let\u00a0us know that this is everyone’s park\u2026<\/p>\n

Y tratar de\u00a0informarnos de que el parque es de todos\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Parque-Mexico-4-edited\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mexico is a paradoxical country, where people can at times be brusque, sharp, smart-alecky, but more often show an elaborate, amiable courtesy.   M\u00e9xico es un pa\u00eds parad\u00f3jico, donde la gente a veces puede ser brusca, ac\u00e9rbica, listilla, pero m\u00e1s a menudo te tratan con una cortes\u00eda elaborada.   In the Colonia Condesa, a district […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[45,48],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mexico","tag-cities","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nick-rider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}