{"id":74915,"date":"2009-12-10T15:12:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T20:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"1304 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2009-12-10T15:12:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T20:12:31","slug":"san-juan-parangaricutiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/74915","title":{"rendered":"San Juan Parangaricutiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/mexico\">Mexico<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\" class=\"active\">North America<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/intriguing-environs\/ghost-towns\">Ghost Towns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On February 20th 1943 a new volcano began to rise from a cornfield, erupting and slowly consuming two villages in lava and ash. As Paricutin volcano erupted, it is said that two miles away the San Juan Parangaricutiro church bells danced as the ground rumbled and the lava began to flow. <\/p>\n<p>It took a year for the lava to reach and melt the rock of the cemetery walls around this small church finally flowing over the graves leaving the church tower and alter untouched. The Paricutin volcano continued to erupt for another eight years but the small church withstood it all. <\/p>\n<p>Luckily, the townspeople evacuated long before the lava reached the town, and no one was killed. They quickly began building a new church the Nuevo San Juan Paragaricutiro in a near by area unaffected by the eruption. <\/p>\n<p>Today, the original San Juan Parangaricutiro church still stands tall, halfway buried in solidified lava rock, with the massive cinder cone of Paricutin looming in the background. It is all that remains of the previous village. Climbing over the volcanic rock to see the church that survived the catastrophe has become a tourist attraction and a major source of revenue for the region.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/436743209_21fb37fd74_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico, North America | Ghost Towns On February 20th 1943 a new volcano began to rise from a cornfield, erupting and slowly consuming two villages in lava and ash. As Paricutin volcano erupted, it is said that two miles away the San Juan Parangaricutiro church bells danced as the ground rumbled and the lava began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}