{"id":38319,"date":"2026-04-30T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38319"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:23:32","slug":"living-the-pura-vida-latest-reader-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38319","title":{"rendered":"Living the Pura Vida &#8211; latest Reader column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38316\">Today&#8217;s Ramble (miscellaney)<\/a><br \/>\nNext Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38333\">Trump as all four horsemen of the Apocalypse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55099597489_cd28819125_t.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <strong>Donate to, Support or learn about the last lincoln republican. Click here:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/weltyforcongress.com\">Weltyforcongress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/uploads\/image\/article\/134\/381\/134381\/header_1080x\/28783_20260412_163705.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>One of the few military monuments in Costa Rica, celebrating the \u201cfive senoritas\u201d &#8211; the five Spanish-speaking Central American states.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The column begins:<\/p>\n<p>Costa Rica, Panama\u2019s northern neighbor, declared war on Germany four days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The nation\u2019s Ticos (masculine) and Tica\u2019s (feminine) had America\u2019s back though its people were not generally disposed to militancy. When their President Calderon disputed his 1948 election loss, a six-week civil war ensued to turn him out of office.  The following year Costa Rica adopted a constitution abolishing its army. While they were at it, Ticas and citizens of African descent were given the vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2026\/04\/30\/134381-living-the-pura-vida\"><strong>Read the rest at the Reader <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: Today&#8217;s Ramble (miscellaney) Next Post: Trump as all four horsemen of the Apocalypse Donate to, Support or learn about the last lincoln&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,148,168],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38319"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38344,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38319\/revisions\/38344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}