{"id":218,"date":"2006-04-11T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/11\/march-24th\/"},"modified":"2006-04-11T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T18:26:08","slug":"march-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/11\/march-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"March 24th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Hobbs of <a href=\"http:\/\/verbalrandomness.blogspot.com\/\">Verbal Randomnes<\/a> left me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/24\/at-work-on-my-day-off\/#comment-11015\"\">a comment<\/a> on my last post.  I have been planning on a follow up to my last post with more info, but work has been keeping me busy.  Anyways, yes, he is right March 24 is not  a holiday, its a memorial day.  According to Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/March_24\">March 24, 1976<\/a> is the day that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Argentina&#8217;s military forces depose president Isabel Per\u00c3\u00b3n and start the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proceso_de_Reorganizaci%C3%B3n_Nacional\">Proceso de Reorganizaci\u00c3\u00b3n Nacional.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those that aren&#8217;t familiar with the history the military government made around over 30,000 people &#8220;disappear&#8221;.  As a result March 24 is used a day or remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>One question I would like to ask though is why was this never a national holiday before?  Prior to 2006 it was just a rememberance day and the country continued to do business as usual.  However, this year they seem to have upgraded it to a national holiday.   My understanding from most people I&#8217;ve spoken to here is that it was a political manouver by the president who wants to be re-elected in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Thats not to saying people don&#8217;t care.  Its definiately an important day.  There were thousands marching towards down the street here heading towards Plaza de Mayo.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, just my 0.02.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Hobbs of Verbal Randomnes left me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}