{"id":866983,"date":"2022-11-03T04:49:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T04:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=263081"},"modified":"2022-11-03T04:49:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T04:49:53","slug":"george-washington-father-of-his-country-town-destroyer-new-anti-colonialist-documentary-asks-big-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/11\/03\/george-washington-father-of-his-country-town-destroyer-new-anti-colonialist-documentary-asks-big-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"George Washington: Father of His Country? Town Destroyer?\u00a0\u00a0New Anti-Colonialist Documentary Asks Big Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s known as the Father of the Country and as the man who couldn\u2019t and wouldn&#8217;t lie about chopping down a cherry tree. But if Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman have their way, George Washington will also be remembered as \u201cthe town destroyer.\u201d That&#8217;s the title of a new documentary that they have written, directed  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/03\/george-washington-father-of-his-country-town-destroyer-new-anti-colonialist-documentary-asks-big-questions\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/03\/george-washington-father-of-his-country-town-destroyer-new-anti-colonialist-documentary-asks-big-questions\/\">George Washington: Father of His Country? Town Destroyer?\u00a0\u00a0New Anti-Colonialist Documentary Asks Big Questions<\/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\/2022\/11\/03\/george-washington-father-of-his-country-town-destroyer-new-anti-colonialist-documentary-asks-big-questions\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s known as the Father of the Country and as the man who couldn\u2019t and wouldn&#8217;t lie about chopping down a cherry tree. But if Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman have their way, George Washington will also be remembered as \u201cthe town destroyer.\u201d That&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"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\/866983"}],"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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866984,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866983\/revisions\/866984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}