{"id":9766,"date":"2015-07-02T16:48:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T16:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/?p=9766"},"modified":"2024-01-30T10:16:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:16:03","slug":"the-matador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/the-matador\/","title":{"rendered":"The Matador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 2nd, after our language classes, we had a guest lecturer, a professional matador. He told us all about his career, and shared with us his tools of the trade, except for a live bull of course. While bullfighting is controversial from an animal rights perspective, I was fascinated to learn about the ceremony and artistry of this centuries-old Spanish tradition. Chase and I even got to try our hand at some of the matador&#8217;s moves! I found the matador&#8217;s lecture and demonstration to be one of our most interesting activities thus far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9767\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"smaller 3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-3.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9768\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-4-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"smaller 4\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-4-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-4.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9769\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-5-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"smaller 5\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-5-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-5.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9770\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"smaller 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-1.jpg 713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9771\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-2-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"smaller 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-2-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/smaller-2.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 2nd, after our language classes, we had a guest lecturer, a professional matador. He told us all about his career, and shared with us his tools of the trade, except for a live bull of course. While bullfighting is controversial from an animal rights perspective, I was fascinated to learn about the ceremony and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/the-matador\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Matador<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-9766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","category-study-abroad","tag-spanish-language-immersion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9773,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions\/9773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}