The James Monroe Older Adult Center in Soundview hosted a Puerto Rican Christmas celebration Thursday.<\/p>\n
The seniors enjoyed Asalto Navide\u00f1o, a Puerto Rican tradition that blends classic Christmas sights and sounds with traditional Puerto Rican music, food and drinks.<\/p>\n
The event featured a live Bomba y Plena orchestra, Quinto Zon\u00f2.<\/p>\n
Employees at the senior center say the residents requested the Christmas party to bring joy, connection and cultural pride to their lives during the holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The James Monroe Older Adult Center in Soundview hosted a Puerto Rican Christmas celebration Thursday. The seniors enjoyed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,12565,9,24,63,27215,10984,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-75287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-christmas","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-puerto-rican","tag-senior-center","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}