{"id":33036,"date":"2014-10-31T23:40:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T23:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irmadriessen.nl\/log\/?p=33036"},"modified":"2016-07-04T06:59:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T06:59:41","slug":"my-own-private-wikipedia-winston-churchill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/my-own-private-wikipedia-winston-churchill\/","title":{"rendered":"my own private wikipedia: winston churchill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day <em>[24 january]<\/em> in 1965 Winston Churchill passed away.<\/p>\n<p>In 1919, when presiding over the British Air Council, he had offered one of his frequent lessons in the art of war:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas\u2026 I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes\u2026 The moral effect should be so good\u2026 and would spread a lively terror.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And in 1937, speaking before the Palestine Royal Commission, he offered one of his frequent lessons on the history of humanity:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I do not admit that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia\u2026 by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race\u2026 has come in and taken their place.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><small>Eduardo Galeano, Children of the days, A calendar of human history<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day [24 january] in 1965 Winston Churchill passed away. In 1919, when presiding over the British Air Council, he had offered one of his frequent lessons in the art of war: &#8216;I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas\u2026 I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilized<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/my-own-private-wikipedia-winston-churchill\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43756,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33036\/revisions\/43756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}