{"id":872541,"date":"2025-09-13T00:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/why-fuss-about-columbus\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T00:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:12:31","slug":"why-fuss-about-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/why-fuss-about-columbus\/","title":{"rendered":"Why fuss about Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE EDITOR: Dr Eric Williams, the father of the nation, was a renowned historian who governed TT for 30 years. During his leadership, he never expressed any major concerns about Christopher Columbus, except for some comments in his book From Columbus to Castro.<br \/>\nToday, 533 years after Columbus arrived in this part of the world in 1492 and 44 years since Dr Williams passed away in 1981&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2025\/08\/12\/why-fuss-about-columbus\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Newsday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE EDITOR: Dr Eric Williams, the father of the nation, was a renowned historian who governed TT for 30 years. During his leadership, he never expressed any major concerns about Christopher Columbus, except for some comments in his book From Columbus to Castro. Today, 533 years after Columbus arrived in this part of the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":872542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25415,192],"tags":[7504],"class_list":{"0":"post-872541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-columbus"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}