{"id":14,"date":"2016-10-12T18:26:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T01:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mylast100\/?p=14"},"modified":"2016-10-12T18:26:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T01:26:01","slug":"week-5-caudillos-versus-the-nation-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mylast100\/2016\/10\/12\/week-5-caudillos-versus-the-nation-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5 &#8211; Caudillos Versus the Nation State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Caudillos discussed in this week&#8217;s readings were interesting to learn about. I had no knowledge of them previous to this week. Reading about the time period, it wasn&#8217;t difficult to believe that the nations of Latin America had a tumultuous political time after struggling for independence. The Caudillos were men of the military who came into positions of power through their strong opinions and outspokenness. From what I understand, they appealed to the people on a more local level in ways that the Spanish crown had never been able to because of their distance from the colonies. For this reason I can see why the Caudillos had a certain appeal but because of their brutality I can also see why they were not ideal leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caudillos discussed in this week&#8217;s readings were interesting to learn about. I had no knowledge of them previous to this week. Reading about the time period, it wasn&#8217;t difficult to believe that the nations of Latin America had a tumultuous political time after struggling for independence. The Caudillos were men of the military who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mylast100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mylast100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mylast100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mylast100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mylast100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mylast100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mylast100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mylast100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mylast100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mylast100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}