{"id":635,"date":"2009-03-04T17:52:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T20:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2009-03-04T17:52:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T20:52:37","slug":"310-martin-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"310. mart\u00edn rodr\u00edguez &loz;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200902B06.jpg\" alt=\"Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200804B10.jpg\" alt=\"Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Successful rancher turned soldier, Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez participated in almost every conflict in early Argentine history. His first campaign was against the British in 1806, taking back the Iglesia de Santo Domingo in downtown Buenos Aires. During independence, Rodr\u00edguez went north to fight with Manuel Belgrano &amp; saw his share of victories as well as defeats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With independence won, Rodr\u00edguez became a politician. As Governor of Buenos Aires, he &amp; <strong>Bernardino Rivadavia<\/strong> created several important institutions: the University of Buenos Aires, the Museum of Natural History, the Banco de la Provincia &amp; most importantly, Recoleta Cemetery. Then called the <em>Cementerio del Norte<\/em> (Northern Cemetery), a few lines of text on the Rodr\u00edguez tomb is the only place where the cemetery&#8217;s original name can be seen today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200804E29.jpg\" alt=\"Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rodr\u00edguez originally supported Rosas but soon switched sides. By doing so, his family had to flee in exile to Uruguay where Rodr\u00edguez died in 1845. His remains were later repatriated, &amp; the current vault was erected in 1924 with ironwork &amp; a fantastic sculpture by Arturo Dresco. It became a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?page_id=164\">National Historic Monument<\/a> in 1946:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200804B11.jpg\" alt=\"Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful rancher turned soldier, Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez participated in almost every conflict in early Argentine history. His first campaign was against the British in 1806, taking&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=635\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">310. mart\u00edn rodr\u00edguez &loz;<\/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":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-politicians","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}