{"id":360785,"date":"2021-10-25T08:55:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T08:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=218316"},"modified":"2021-10-25T08:55:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T08:55:04","slug":"colin-powell-and-the-limited-dream-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/25\/colin-powell-and-the-limited-dream-of-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Powell and The Limited Dream of Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still remember sitting at home with my parents and watching the news clips of Colonel Colin Powell presented the U.S. case for war against Iraq. I still remember all of us silently watching, as I (a teenager then), was feeling some level of connection to him, given he was the first black man I\u2019d  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/25\/colin-powell-and-the-limited-dream-of-progress\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/25\/colin-powell-and-the-limited-dream-of-progress\/\">Colin Powell and The Limited Dream of Progress<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/25\/colin-powell-and-the-limited-dream-of-progress\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still remember sitting at home with my parents and watching the news clips of Colonel Colin Powell presented the U.S. case for war against Iraq. I still remember all of us silently watching, as I (a teenager then), was feeling some level of connectio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360785"}],"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\/8172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361077,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360785\/revisions\/361077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}