{"id":101444,"date":"2018-02-09T12:04:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/talk-about-town-miss-hozhoni-pageant-name-changes\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:04:55","slug":"talk-about-town-miss-hozhoni-pageant-name-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/talk-about-town-miss-hozhoni-pageant-name-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk about town: Miss Hozhoni Pageant name changes"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Natalia
Natalia Sells is the reigning Miss Hozhoni. She will be the last person to have that exact title because the name of the pageant is being changed to \u201cMs. Hozhoni.\u201d<\/span>Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It will now be called \u201cMs. Hozhoni Pageant\u201d to make it more open to applicants. \u201cMs. is the equivalent of Mr.,\u201d anthropology and gender and women\u2019s studies professor Kathy Fine-Dare told The Independent<\/a>. \u201cBut we got in the habit of having titles for women that indicate their marital status. Miss has connotation of being unmarried and no children. So to have a pageant be Miss Hozhoni means that it limits who can apply.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only the name is changing, she said. The pageant rules will remain the same, and it will continue to be open to all genders. The pageant, a three-day affair, showcases candidates\u2019 contemporary and traditional skills at crafting, cooking, singing, dancing and story-telling.<\/p>\n

The reigning Miss Hozhoni is Natalia Sells<\/a>. A new Ms. Hozhoni will be crowned at this year\u2019s Hozhoni Days in April.<\/p>\n

Herald Staff<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Natalia Sells is the reigning Miss Hozhoni. She will be the last person to have that exact title because the name of the pageant is being changed to \u201cMs. Hozhoni.\u201dJerry McBride\/Durango Herald file It will now be called \u201cMs. Hozhoni Pageant\u201d to make it more open to applicants. \u201cMs. is the equivalent of Mr.,\u201d anthropology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[202,561],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs","tag-native-american"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101444"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}