{"id":3180,"date":"2011-09-12T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2011-09-12T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:09:14","slug":"435-crotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3180","title":{"rendered":"434. crotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Crotto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201109A13.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Crotto\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the founding members of the <em>Uni\u00f3n C\u00edvica Radical<\/em> political party, <strong>Jos\u00e9 Camilo Crotto<\/strong> participated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=224\">1890 Revolution<\/a>. He continued to be active in politics his entire life, first as Senator for the city of Buenos Aires &amp; later as Governor of the province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the presidency of fellow UCR member <strong>Hip\u00f3lito Yrigoyen<\/strong>, Crotto was chosen as the party&#8217;s national chairman. He named various ministers for Yrigoyen who weren&#8217;t to everyone&#8217;s liking. Controversy brewed. Crotto eventually broke away from the UCR &amp; formed his own splinter political party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he is most famous for approving a 1920 law that allowed rural workers to ride cargo trains free of charge in order to help with the harvest. Nicknamed &#8220;<strong><em>crotos<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; after the governor&#8217;s last name, the term later referred to anyone who was homeless &amp; remains a part of local Argentine slang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the founding members of the Uni\u00f3n C\u00edvica Radical political party, Jos\u00e9 Camilo Crotto participated in the 1890 Revolution. He continued to be active&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3180\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">434. crotto<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicians","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}