{"id":7602,"date":"2009-02-05T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7602"},"modified":"2009-02-05T09:20:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T14:20:59","slug":"pounding-beers-with-manos-de-piedra-duran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7602","title":{"rendered":"Pounding beers with Manos de Piedra Duran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, sports fans may recognize this guy, but he&#8217;s actually the most famous Panamanian who is not in jail.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/panama-016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/panama-016.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"panama-016\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/panama-016.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/panama-016-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Roberto &#8220;Hands of Stone&#8221; Duran. (Well, he&#8217;s also known as Roberto &#8220;No Mas&#8221; Duran after one of his fights with Sugar Ray Leonard ), pound-for-pound one of the greatest boxers of all time in his prime. Duran actually won championships in four weight classes and apparently, his weight outpaced his boxing abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we bumped into him on Via Argentina yesterday and had an opportunity to pound suds with  the &#8220;Manos de Piedra&#8221;. My wife&#8217;s family was heavily involved in boxing in Panama years ago and her Uncle, Fidel Oro, had supported Duran in his early years. I&#8217;d met Duran over 30 years ago when he was in his his prime.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s what he used to look like;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/duran-roberto-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/duran-roberto-11-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"duran-roberto-11\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/duran-roberto-11-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/duran-roberto-11.jpg 1165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTime ain&#8217;t easy on anyone, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, sports fans may recognize this guy, but he&#8217;s actually the most famous Panamanian who is &hellip; <a title=\"Pounding beers with Manos de Piedra Duran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7602\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pounding beers with Manos de Piedra Duran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}