{"id":800,"date":"2026-04-21T19:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/?p=800"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:24:38","slug":"portales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/04\/21\/portales\/","title":{"rendered":"Portales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My mom grew up in Portales, a town in southeastern New Mexico. My dad grew up in Dora which is very near Portales. My Aunt Theressa still lives in Portales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew that Portales<\/em> was the Spanish word for porches<\/em>, or portals<\/em>. When we were in Logro\u00f1o in 2013, we stayed in Hotel Portales. Yesterday we were walking through Logro\u00f1o on the street that runs beside the cathedral and I noticed several business with Portales<\/em> in their name. I thought, “what is it about the word portales<\/em> that makes it such a big deal around here? Maybe I’ll ask in the hotel.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, I realized that the street we were walking down was named Portales Street! Oh, that explains why so many businesses are named Portales<\/em>. And then, duh, I realized we’d been walking under a huge porch\/portal that went on for several blocks. We were quite enjoying the coolness it provided. So, I suppose the street was named for the porch!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cafe Portales<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Portales Doner Kebab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View of the porches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another view of the porches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mom grew up in Portales, a town in southeastern New Mexico. My dad grew up in Dora which is very near Portales. My Aunt Theressa still lives in Portales. I knew that Portales was the Spanish word for porches, or portals. When we were in Logro\u00f1o in 2013, we stayed in Hotel Portales. Yesterday … Continue reading “Portales”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}