{"id":464657,"date":"2026-09-15T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464657\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:24:10","slug":"bay-area-celebrates-el-grito-as-hispanic-heritage-month-begins-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464657\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area celebrates \u2018El Grito\u2019 as Hispanic Heritage Month begins \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hispanic Heritage Month begins Tuesday, kicking off a monthlong celebration of Hispanic and Latino culture and history.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering why the celebration begins in the middle of the month, Sept. 15 marks the anniversary of independence for five Central American countries.<\/p>\n<p>Later Tuesday, Mexicans will mark &#8220;El Grito,&#8221; the traditional celebration that kicks off Mexico&#8217;s Independence Day (Sept. 16) and offers an opportunity for people to reconnect with their cultural roots.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of miles from Mexico City, two &#8220;El Grito&#8221; celebrations are planned in the Bay Area \u2014 one at San Jose City Hall and another at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers are inviting attendees to wear the green jersey of Mexico&#8217;s national soccer team.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Bay Area&#8217;s Vianey Arana will be at the San Francisco celebration, while Telemundo 48&#8217;s Carlos Yustis and Miryam Villarreal will be in San Jose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hispanic Heritage Month begins Tuesday, kicking off a monthlong celebration of Hispanic and Latino culture and history. If&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5344,101,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-464657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-hispanic-heritage-month","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}