{"id":4068,"date":"2013-05-20T07:29:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T11:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2013-05-20T07:29:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T11:29:14","slug":"laja-and-its-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/laja-and-its-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Laja and It&#8217;s Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_2988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4047\" alt=\"_MG_2988\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_2988.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_2988.jpg 427w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_2988-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a>Laja was founded as La Paz on October 20, 1548 by Alonso de Mendoza. \u00a0It lasted for three days, as the city was transferred to its current location on October 23. \u00a0Laja remained an important location and the first cathedral in Bolivia was built in the mid-17th century. \u00a0It is an imposing stone building with two bell towers.<\/p>\n<p>A short stop in Laja is certainly worthwhile. \u00a0See the monument to the founding of La Paz in the center of the plaza and, if you are lucky, maybe you can get in to see the interior of the church (I have not seen it.)<\/p>\n<p>Laja is a nice stop on the way to or from <a title=\"Tiwanaku\" href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2013\/05\/18\/tiwanaku\/\">Tiwanaku<\/a>. \u00a0For directions and other interesting sites in the area, check out <a title=\"Tiwanaku, Colonial Churches and Natural Arches\" href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2013\/05\/19\/tiwanaku-colonial-churches-and-natural-arches\/\">Tiwanaku, Colonial Churches and Natural Arches<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laja was founded as La Paz on October 20, 1548 by Alonso de Mendoza. \u00a0It lasted for three days, as the city was transferred to its current location on October 23. \u00a0Laja remained an important location and the first cathedral in Bolivia was built in the mid-17th century. \u00a0It is an imposing stone building with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,92,102,61,100,91,59],"tags":[190,187,104,172,189,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4103,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions\/4103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}