{"id":10378,"date":"2019-01-05T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T18:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/?p=10378"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:14:58","slug":"los-angeles-times-my-father-worked-at-langers-deli-for-the-last-50-years-this-is-our-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/2019\/01\/05\/los-angeles-times-my-father-worked-at-langers-deli-for-the-last-50-years-this-is-our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Times: My father worked at Langer\u2019s Deli for the last 50 years. This is our story."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Bea Barajas wrote a beautiful tribute to her father, Ascencion \u201cChon\u201d Barajas, who just retired as our dishwasher, a position he held continuously since 1968. The story appears in the Los Angeles Times:<\/p>\n<p><em>Pop joined Langer\u2019s in 1968. He was 27 years old. He has decided to retire. His last day was Dec. 31. He worked there for half a century; he is now 78.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>He has always spoken highly of the Langer family, and Langer\u2019s has been there to help with life changes for him and his daughter \u2014 me \u2014 for her entire life, with sandwiches and memories and support. I love that Langer\u2019s has provided for him and us in many ways other than in a monetary sense \u2014 it is a place that will always be cherished by the Barajas family.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>My sisters and I were, of course, extremely worried about this day. But, as he was there for us throughout whatever was happening in our lives, my sisters and i will be there for him as he closes this long chapter of his life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/food\/dailydish\/la-fo-re-langers-20100109-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Please click here to read the complete article.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0It\u2019s amazing. Thank you, Bea, and thank you, Chon. We will miss you and your smile every day. \u2013\u00a0<em>The Langer Family<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bea Barajas wrote a beautiful tribute to her father, Ascencion \u201cChon\u201d Barajas, who just retired as our dishwasher, a position he held continuously since 1968. The story appears in the Los Angeles Times: Pop joined Langer\u2019s in 1968. He was 27 years old. He has decided to retire. His last day was Dec. 31. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10380,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions\/10380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}