{"id":1699,"date":"2010-10-26T20:11:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T20:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2010-10-26T20:11:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T20:11:48","slug":"the-independence-of-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/the-independence-of-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Independence of Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cAqu\u00ed est\u00e1 el bast\u00f3n, disponed de \u00e9l y del mando.\u201d<\/em> With these words Mateo de Toro y Zambrano opened the Cabildo Abierto sesi\u00f3n, on September 18, 1810 which was the first step to start the process for Chile to gain independence from Spain. Such process came to an end ten years later, after the Maip\u00fa Battle, on February 12, 1818.<\/p>\n<p>The Chile Independence festivities last a whole week, starting on September 18. The Chilean people enjoy parades, dances, games, music, typical food and many other shows of national pride. The <em>guasos <\/em>(Chilean cowboys) participate in rodeos and many of these festivities are held at festival or refreshment stalls which date back from that time because these were the entertainment places for the people in open terrains, where people would go to relax.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, <em>las ramadas<\/em> (festival stalls) were roofed with cane or straw, nowadays they are temporarily set up in public or private open places and are covered with straw, tree branches and are adorned with garlands. In these <em>ramadas<\/em>, you can find chairs and tables with room for people to dance <em>cumbias<\/em>, <em>polkas <\/em>and <em>cuecas <\/em>(typical Chilean dance music) and eat <em>asado <\/em>(barbecue), <em>empanadas <\/em>(typical Chilean pastry) and<em> la chicha <\/em>(alcoholic beverage made from wine).<\/p>\n<p>Chileans also play a lot of games like <em>el palo ensebado<\/em>, which consists of a 5-6 meters wood pole buried in the ground, smeared with fat and that has to be climbed by all competitors who will get the prize if they get to the top. People also have <em>la carrera de sacos<\/em> (sack race) and play with <em>el trompo<\/em> (top), <em>la rayuela<\/em> (hopscotch), <em>la pallana<\/em> (a game played with little stones) and <em>bolitas <\/em>(marbles). They also have kite (<em>volant\u00edn <\/em>or <em>barrilete<\/em>) competitions as one of the most popular activities.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eso es todo por hoy, mi gente. Los veo prontito.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAqu\u00ed est\u00e1 el bast\u00f3n, disponed de \u00e9l y del mando.\u201d With these words Mateo de Toro y Zambrano opened the Cabildo Abierto sesi\u00f3n, on September 18, 1810 which was the first step to start the process for Chile to gain independence from Spain. Such process came to an end ten years later, after the Maip\u00fa&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/the-independence-of-chile\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,9663],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-chile","tag-festivities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}