{"id":113,"date":"2014-05-08T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogtest.cowebtech.ca\/?p=113"},"modified":"2019-10-02T14:43:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T19:43:38","slug":"lapu-lapu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Lapu Lapu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines big hero is Lapu-Lapu who defended Cebu against Magellan back in 1521. &nbsp;The location where the battle happened is on Mactan island where the Cebu airport is located. &nbsp;Since I&#8217;m staying on the island tonight to catch a morning flight tomorrow, I decided to check it out.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-8DNRLbvuDSs\/U2swMwDmxnI\/AAAAAAAAFVM\/1eLlYAF01lE\/s1600\/blogger-image--890390646.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-8DNRLbvuDSs\/U2swMwDmxnI\/AAAAAAAAFVM\/1eLlYAF01lE\/s1600\/blogger-image--890390646.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">Apparently Magellan was wounded by a spear to the head and retreated to his boat, where he later died. &nbsp;The boat left Cebu and continued on to finish circumnavigating the globe.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-m8gRCDPIpGw\/U2swPULKHII\/AAAAAAAAFVU\/X6M5bMeP9TM\/s1600\/blogger-image--861535407.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-m8gRCDPIpGw\/U2swPULKHII\/AAAAAAAAFVU\/X6M5bMeP9TM\/s1600\/blogger-image--861535407.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">From Cebu city itself it&#8217;s kind of difficult to get here. &nbsp;However, if you are already on Lapu Lapu island then you can ride a jeepeny around the back of the airport for 10 peso.<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines big hero is Lapu-Lapu who defended Cebu against Magellan back in 1521. &nbsp;The location where the battle happened is on Mactan island where the Cebu airport is located. &nbsp;Since I&#8217;m staying on the island tonight to catch a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/?p=113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}