{"id":76840,"date":"2019-12-22T10:28:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T10:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=76840"},"modified":"2019-12-22T10:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T10:28:35","slug":"french-president-macron-says-colonialism-was-grave-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/french-president-macron-says-colonialism-was-grave-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"French President Macron says colonialism was \u2018grave mistake\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said \u201ccolonialism was a grave mistake,\u201d and called for \u201cturning the page\u201d on the past during a visit to Ivory Coast, a former French colony in West Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macron, speaking in Ivory Coast\u2019s main city Abidjan, said France was often viewed as having a \u201chegemonistic view and the trappings of colonialism that was a grave mistake and a fault of the Republic.\u201d   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThree-fourths of your country never knew colonialism,\u201d he said, addressing Ivorians and called on African youths to \u201cbuild a new partnership of friendship with France.\u201d   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his election campaign for presidency Macron had created a storm by calling France\u2019s colonisation of Algeria a \u201ccrime against humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said \u201ccolonialism was a grave mistake,\u201d and called for \u201cturning the page\u201d on the past during a visit to Ivory Coast, a former French colony in West Africa. Macron, speaking in Ivory Coast\u2019s main city Abidjan, said France was often viewed as having a \u201chegemonistic view and the trappings [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76842,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76840\/revisions\/76842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}