{"id":24783,"date":"2018-12-08T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T16:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24783"},"modified":"2018-12-08T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T16:22:50","slug":"belgiums-museum-reflects-colonial-oppression-against-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24783","title":{"rendered":"Belgium&#8217;s museum reflects colonial oppression against DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"66.0792079208\">\n<p>A controversial museum, focusing on Belgium&#8217;s colonial past, is re-opening after being closed for a year.<\/p>\n<p>The event is being overshadowed by demands from former colonies, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/democratic-republic-congo.html\">Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a>, that it return some artefacts.<\/p>\n<p>Curators say the renovated museum outside Brussels, takes a critical view of colonial rule in what was then the Belgian Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Natacha Butler reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial museum, focusing on Belgium&#8217;s colonial past, is re-opening after being closed for a year. The event is being overshadowed by demands from former colonies, like the Democratic Republic of Congo, that it return some artefacts. Curators say the renovated museum outside Brussels, takes a critical view of colonial rule in what was then&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}