{"id":15695,"date":"2020-03-11T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/11\/european-colonial-powers-still-loth-to-admit-historical-evils"},"modified":"2020-03-11T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:00:54","slug":"european-colonial-powers-still-loth-to-admit-historical-evils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15695","title":{"rendered":"European colonial powers still loth to admit historical evils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netherlands, Germany and Belgium still tend to an upbeat view of their overseas legacies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/composer.gutools.co.uk\/content\/5e67a2f18f087df56e4c5bdf\" data-gu-preview=\"true\">UK more nostalgic for empire than all other ex-colonial powers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visiting Indonesia this week,<a href=\"https:\/\/nltimes.nl\/2020\/03\/10\/dutch-king-apologizes-colonial-past-indonesia\"> King Willem-Alexander apologised<\/a> for his country\u2019s \u201cexcessive violence\u201d in its former colony, saying the past could not be erased but must be acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/11\/european-colonial-powers-still-loth-to-admit-historical-evils\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netherlands, Germany and Belgium still tend to an upbeat view of their overseas legaciesUK more nostalgic for empire than all other ex-colonial powersVisiting Indonesia this week, King Willem-Alexander apologised for his country\u2019s \u201cexcessive violence\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,41,888,749,221,533,156,1221,219,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-belgium","category-colonialism","category-europe","category-germany","category-indonesia","category-namibia","category-netherlands","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15696,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15695\/revisions\/15696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}