{"id":1652,"date":"2010-06-16T23:19:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T23:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2014-07-17T21:23:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T21:23:37","slug":"%e2%80%9cthe-history-they-didn%e2%80%99t-teach-us-in-school%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=1652","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe history they didn\u2019t teach us in school\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Huffington Post<br \/>\n&#8220;Guam: Self-Determination or More  U.S. Troops?&#8221; by Robert Naiman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Usually, when someone refers to a place as a &#8220;U.S. colony,&#8221; they are  making an analogy, suggesting that U.S. influence somewhere is so  strong, and the indigenous residents of the place have so little  effective say over key decisions, that it&#8217;s as if the place were a  formal U.S. colony.\u00a0 (read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-naiman\/guam-self-determination-o_b_614688.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huffington Post &#8220;Guam: Self-Determination or More U.S. Troops?&#8221; by Robert Naiman Usually, when someone refers to a place as a &#8220;U.S. colony,&#8221; they are making an analogy, suggesting that U.S. influence somewhere is so strong, and the indigenous residents of the place have so little effective say over key decisions, that it&#8217;s as if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,86,84],"tags":[121,120,89,90,167,94,91],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-guam-military-buildup","category-reviews","tag-american-military-bases","tag-empire","tag-guam","tag-guam-deis","tag-guam-military-buildup","tag-okinawa","tag-the-insular-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}