{"id":40985,"count":1,"description":"Rodolfo Guzm\u00e1n Huerta (September 23, 1917 \u2013 February 5, 1984), more widely known as El Santo (the Saint), was a Mexican Luchador enmascarado (Spanish for masked professional wrestler), film actor, and folk icon. El Santo, along with Blue Demon and Mil M\u00e1scaras, is one of the most famous and iconic of all Mexican luchadores, and has been referred to as one of \"the greatest legends in Mexican sports\" His wrestling career spanned nearly five decades, during which he became a folk hero and a symbol of justice for the common man through his appearances in comic books and movies. He is said to have popularized professional wrestling in Mexico just as Rikidozan did in Japan. Guzm\u00e1n's son followed him into wrestling as El Hijo del Santo, or 'Son of Santo'.\nBorn in Tulancingo in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, to Jes\u00fas Guzm\u00e1n Campuzano and Josefina Huerta (M\u00e1rquez) de Guzm\u00e1n as the fifth of seven children, Rodolfo came to Mexico City in the 1920s, where his family settled in the Tepito...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/santo\/","name":"Santo","slug":"santo","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/40985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=40985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}