{"id":140,"date":"2018-06-12T19:36:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/?p=140"},"modified":"2018-06-14T19:09:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:09:01","slug":"columbus-the-hero-week-1-post-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/2018\/06\/12\/columbus-the-hero-week-1-post-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus &#8220;The Hero&#8221; &#8211; Week 1 Post 2 Mike Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading our book\u00a0<em>Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask\u00a0<\/em>really shows you the full story on what Christopher Columbus really did when he came over to the Americas. It&#8217;s very interesting when you actually went through it and were taught that all he did was complete this amazing feat and that was it. But if you knew the full story you would now that &#8220;The Spaniards made bets as to who would split a man into two, or cut off his head at one blow; or they opened up his bowels.&#8221; The reason all of this happens is because of the colonization process. As we know from class this process never really works. The Spaniards came over met with them and eventually discovered a resource, gold. They could not get all the gold the Spaniards wanted, so they ended up annihilating them.<\/p>\n<p>Like I sort of mentioned before, it is very interesting to actually be apart of this whole process of our education system not telling us the full truth. I know we aren&#8217;t proud of it but we need to teach or past so it doesn&#8217;t happen again, because as many people know the past tends to repeat itself. We teach slavery and other humiliating parts of our past, so why do we overlook this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading our book\u00a0Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask\u00a0really shows you the full story on what Christopher Columbus really did when he came over to the Americas. It&#8217;s very interesting when you actually went through it and were taught that all he did was complete this amazing feat and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13812,"featured_media":137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-week-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13951\/2018\/06\/2000px-Flag_Map_of_Ohio.svg.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}