{"id":127333,"date":"2019-04-22T19:39:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/vermont-and-maine-both-passed-bills-last-week-that-would-change-columbus-day-to\/"},"modified":"2019-04-22T19:39:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:39:32","slug":"vermont-and-maine-both-passed-bills-last-week-that-would-change-columbus-day-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/vermont-and-maine-both-passed-bills-last-week-that-would-change-columbus-day-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont and Maine both passed bills last week that would change Columbus Day to&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/instagram.fmed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/vp\/56d3b2484bfb302c8d9c48f63e6181d4\/5D355188\/t51.2885-15\/e35\/58409511_412301939551946_8354278586779811440_n.jpg?_nc_ht=instagram.fmed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net\" alt=\"Vermont and Maine both passed bills last week that would change Columbus Day to\u2026\" \/><br \/>Vermont and Maine both passed bills last week that would change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day. The bills are awaiting the governors&#8217; signatures. Several other states have passed similar measures, including New Mexico, Alaska, Minnesota, Oregon and South Dakota. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to stop celebrating a man whose arrival brought death, disease and slavery to hundreds of thousands, and start honoring the people who lived here long before,&#8221; said Oami Amarasingham, policy director at the ACLU of Maine.<br \/>\n(?: Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont and Maine both passed bills last week that would change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day. The bills are awaiting the governors&#8217; signatures. Several other states have passed similar measures, including New Mexico, Alaska, Minnesota, Oregon and South Dakota. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to stop celebrating a man whose arrival brought death, disease and slavery to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}