{"id":128,"date":"2005-10-09T16:24:07","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/10\/09\/independence-day\/"},"modified":"2005-10-09T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2005-10-09T20:24:07","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/10\/09\/independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a982'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I have returned to civilization, Guayaquil, after a week where&nbsp;my watch&nbsp;was the only mechanical device capable of providing me with information.&nbsp; Coincidentally, my hotel is on a boulevard named 9 de Octobre, and today is Guayaquil Independence Day (185 years ago, Guayaquil civilians arrested the Spanish authorities and declared their independence from Spain).&nbsp; So the streets are festooned with the Ecuadorian flag, in its primary colors, and blue and white starred ribbons\/flags (the Independence Day flag).&nbsp; So, I&#8217;m off to the obligatory parade before my sojourn home.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>**<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Edit (This silly keyboard will not let me type colons or dashes, so imagine a colon here) Back at the hotel to rest before an early flight, but two more observations.&nbsp; Because of the festivities, there are quite a few beauty queens running around the hotel in full regalia (Miss Guayaquil is quite pretty).&nbsp; Also, on our way out to the parade, a police escort outside of the hotel helped some sort of Latin American rapper board his tinted van without being assaulted by his groupies.&nbsp; My companions wanted to rubberneck, but I did not, for countries where police officers&nbsp;casually carry M16s make me nervous.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have returned to civilization, Guayaquil, after a week where&nbsp;my watch&nbsp;was the only mechanical device capable of providing me with information.&nbsp; Coincidentally, my hotel is on a boulevard named 9 de Octobre, and today is Guayaquil Independence Day (185 years ago, Guayaquil civilians arrested the Spanish authorities and declared their independence from Spain).&nbsp; So the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}