{"id":2384,"date":"2013-11-22T10:44:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T10:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2013-11-17T06:12:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T06:12:08","slug":"the-world-sends-us-garbage-we-send-back-music-the-children-of-cateura-and-their-garbage-instruments-los-reciclados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=2384","title":{"rendered":"The world sends us garbage&#8230; We send back music &#8211; the children of Cateura and their &#8220;Garbage Instruments&#8221; &#8211; Los Reciclados"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozart played on oil drums!<\/p>\n<p>Just outside the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion sits Cateura, a massive landfill that receives 1,500 tons of new rubbish each day. The dumping site\u2019s surrounding neighborhoods are home to several thousand families who make a living by sorting through its rotting waste, and separate out whatever can be sold to the local recycling industry. According to UNICEF, Cateura is a community marked by extreme poverty, illiteracy, and pollution.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also home to an orchestra\u2014one made up of local children whose instruments are made entirely from recycled garbage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fXynrsrTKbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2013\/11\/06\/landfill-harmonic-kids-play-classical-music-instruments-made-of-trash\" target=\"_blank\">This is an article in TakePart<\/a>\u00a0amplifying my <a title=\"\u201cIf you paint your village, you paint the whole world\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com.c51.previewmysite.eu\/WPress\/?p=1416\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post on Cateura&#8217;s collaboration with <strong>Berta Rojas.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an intriguing story of a musician, Favio Ch\u00e1vez, who got together with a rubbish collector,\u00a0Nicol\u00e1s G\u00f3mez, to make instruments together using packing cases, oil drums and old bottles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozart played on oil drums! Just outside the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion sits Cateura, a massive landfill that receives 1,500 tons of new rubbish each day. The dumping site\u2019s surrounding neighborhoods are home to several thousand families who make a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=2384\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,41,24],"tags":[75,443,619,620,617,618],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions\/2386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}