{"id":176214,"date":"2021-05-23T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=202050"},"modified":"2021-05-23T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T08:33:00","slug":"monumentalizing-iniquity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/23\/monumentalizing-iniquity\/","title":{"rendered":"Monumentalizing Iniquity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crowned with bird dung, a 7.2-meter-tall bronze Columbus towers over Barcelona atop a 40-meter Corinthian column, symbolically pointing to both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The statue was constructed for the 1888 World\u2019s Fair. Just ten years before Spain lost its colonies in Cuba and Puerto Rico following the Spanish-American War, it was [&#8230;] \t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/?wcm_redirect_to=post&#038;wcm_redirect_id=202050\">log in<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/subscribe\/\">or Subscribe<\/a>\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/23\/monumentalizing-iniquity\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/23\/monumentalizing-iniquity\/\">Monumentalizing Iniquity<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/23\/monumentalizing-iniquity\/\" >CounterPunch.org<\/a> and was authored by Daniel Raventos - Julie Wark.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/05\/23\/monumentalizing-iniquity\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowned with bird dung, a 7.2-meter-tall bronze Columbus towers over Barcelona atop a 40-meter Corinthian column, symbolically pointing to both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The statue was constructed for the 1888 World\u2019s Fair. Just ten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,1096,230],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176220,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176214\/revisions\/176220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}