{"id":232,"date":"2012-01-16T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T21:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2013-09-05T15:14:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T22:14:36","slug":"fighting-in-valdivia-liam-with-your-current-interest-you-will-love-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Fighting in Valdivia &#8211; Liam, with your current interest, you will love this!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_9044.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-228\" title=\"Shooting from the parapets\" src=\"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_9044-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We took a little bus west to the coast of Chile from Valdivia. \u00a0Then we took a little boat to a pensula called Corral where there is an old Spanish fort. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_9129.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-235 alignright\" title=\"A modern ship in front of the cannon of the old fort\" src=\"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_9129-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>We watched a re-inactment of an 1820 battle that took place here. \u00a0The troops under the Spanish were holding down the fort and did not seem to be paying much attention. \u00a0This could have gone on for years and years. \u00a0Then, Chilean rebels came <a href=\"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_9081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-230 alignleft\" title=\"Actor in Corral during re-enactment of 1820 battle for independence from Spain\" src=\"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_9081-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>and successfully drove out the Spanish. \u00a0This was one of the battles that eventually lead to Chilean independence.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link below where there is a sequence of our photos put to piano music played by our host Helen&#8217;s daughter Mahani.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ub_tX9M_PBQ\">Mahani plays Rachmaninoff while Chile fights for independence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took a little bus west to the coast of Chile from Valdivia. \u00a0Then we took a little boat to a pensula called Corral where there is an old Spanish fort. \u00a0We watched a re-inactment of an 1820 battle that took place here. \u00a0The troops under the Spanish were holding down the fort and did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chile","category-south-america-2012","category-valdivia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}