{"id":63094,"date":"2025-11-28T00:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/63094\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T00:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:46:09","slug":"is-hialeah-one-of-the-worst-places-to-celebrate-thanksgiving-the-gonzalez-family-says-no-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/63094\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Hialeah one of the worst places to celebrate Thanksgiving? The Gonzalez family says, \u2018No way!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla.  \u2014 Hialeah is ranked one of the worst places to spend Thanksgiving, according to finance website <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-places-to-go-for-thanksgiving\/67603\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-places-to-go-for-thanksgiving\/67603\">Wallet Hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade County\u2019s second-largest city is just one from the bottom in a recent survey that rated affordability, weather, and celebratory atmosphere. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But on this Thanksgiving, Hialeah residents beg to differ. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t think so,\u201d said resident Yusmen Lemas. \u201cWhere are the facts to back that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Michelle Perez said she was planning to spend the holiday with friends and family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s unique. Everybody is closer,\u201d Perez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For the Gonzalez family, the American tradition &#8211; infused with Cuban flavor &#8211; has been going strong for four decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe always celebrate every year because we\u2019ve got to be blessed that we have food and a roof, and our families are together,\u201d said Chavelis Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They plan to feed nearly 40 people this year with turkey, rice and beans, and a spread of desserts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHialeah has big families, I think that\u2019s the best part,\u201d Lemas said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 Hialeah is ranked one of the worst places to spend Thanksgiving, according to finance website&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-63094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}