{"id":2130,"date":"2010-05-05T07:14:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T12:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/05\/05\/liberation-day-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-05-05T07:14:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T12:14:31","slug":"liberation-day-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/05\/05\/liberation-day-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberation Day 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/90\/Wappers_belgian_revolution.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/belgian-revolution.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" alt=\"Perhaps the most famous painting of the Belgian revolution, by Gustaaf Wappers\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAs with the National Remembrance yesterday, it would be nice to spare some thoughts on Liberation Day as well to those people who remember their liberation from <em>us<\/em>: the Indonesians, the people of Surinam, the others we ruled\/oppressed for longer or shorter periods of time as the Dutch colonial empire waxed and waned and last but not least, our southern neighbours, the Belgians, who liberated themselves in 1830. For too long we have denied the more sordid sides of our national history and a national holiday like today, where we celebrate our own liberation from the German occupation, should be used to acknowledge that we ourselve used to oppress other countries too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with the National Remembrance yesterday, it would be nice to spare some thoughts on Liberation Day as well to those people who remember their liberation from us: the Indonesians, the people of Surinam, the others we ruled\/oppressed for longer or shorter periods of time as the Dutch colonial empire waxed and waned and last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch-politics","category-oh-those-crazy-cloggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}