{"id":97908,"date":"2025-12-25T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominican-ballplayers-ask-for-harmony-and-lets-eat-on-christmas-eve\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:00:15","slug":"dominican-ballplayers-ask-for-harmony-and-lets-eat-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dominican-ballplayers-ask-for-harmony-and-lets-eat-on-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican ballplayers ask for harmony and let&#8217;s eat! on Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ballplayers Share Their Christmas Traditions<\/h2>\n\n\nFrom the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium, our Alofoke Deportes team spoke with several baseball players to learn about their plans and customs during the Christmas Eve dinner, celebrated on December 24th. The players shared their expectations and revealed details about their festivities.\n\nThe players emphasized the importance of sharing, harmony, and, of course, enjoying the food. They highlighted that spending time with family is the most valuable aspect of these celebrations.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>My best time is with my family. Pork and &#8220;moro&#8221; (rice and beans) are a must.<\/p><cite>Francisco Pe\u00f1a, receiver for the Estrellas Orientales<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGilbert G\u00f3mez, leader of the Tigres del Licey, explained that every year, along with his wife, they alternate visits to their respective parents to ensure they share with the whole family. &#8220;To eat a trip, to eat a lot,&#8221; he commented, adding that the pasteles en hoja and chicken skin are essential on his table.\n\nRobinson Can\u00f3 also shared his traditions, mentioning that pork, chicken, dumplings, and Russian salad are some of the dishes that cannot be missing from his Christmas Eve celebration.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballplayers Share Their Christmas Traditions From the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium, our Alofoke Deportes team spoke with several baseball players to learn about their plans and customs during the Christmas Eve dinner, celebrated on December 24th. The players shared their expectations and revealed details about their festivities. The players emphasized the importance of sharing, harmony, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[8489,11152,3884,7035],"class_list":{"0":"post-97908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball-players","9":"tag-christmas-eve","10":"tag-family","11":"tag-food"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}