{"id":25596,"date":"2020-03-01T13:23:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T12:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25596"},"modified":"2020-03-01T13:23:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T12:23:25","slug":"what-do-you-know-about-paraguay-and-why-is-today-a-special-one-for-that-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25596","title":{"rendered":"What do you know about Paraguay and why is today a special one for that country?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the many reasons that I love foreign travel is that, having visited a country, I am more likely to pay attention to any news coming out of that nation. I only spent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/SouthAmerica.html#PARAGUAY\">a short time in Paraguay<\/a> but it was sufficient for me to pick up that today is a special one for its citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The six-year War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870), in which Paraguay confronted the combined forces of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, had a huge impact on this landlocked nation. As many as two-thirds of the entire population of Paraguay\u00a0are reckoned to have perished during the conflict, including around 90% of its men. Brazil and Argentina would go on to annex enormous swaths of Paraguayan territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paraguay is now marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the conflict with book launches, conferences and concerts and official commemoration ceremonies today in Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more about the war <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paraguayan_War\">here<\/a> and more about the anniversary commemorations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/27\/paraguay-war-of-the-triple-alliance-anniversary\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many reasons that I love foreign travel is that, having visited a country, I am more likely to pay attention to any news coming out of that nation. I only spent a short time in Paraguay but it was sufficient for me to pick up that today is a special one for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25600,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25596\/revisions\/25600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}