{"id":799,"date":"2006-09-19T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=799"},"modified":"2006-09-19T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T16:02:26","slug":"september-19-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/09\/19\/september-19-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"September 19, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The History that Might Have Been<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>   Christopher Columbus couldn&#8217;t discover America: he didn&#8217;t have a visa or even a passport.<br \/>\n   Pedro Alvares CAbral couldn&#8217;t get off the boat in Brazil: he might have been carrying smallpox, measles, the flu, or other foreign plagues.<br \/>\n   Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro could never have begun the conquest of Mexico and Peru: they didn&#8217;t have working papers.<br \/>\n   Pedro de Alvarado was turned away from Guatemala, and Pedro de Valdivia couldn&#8217;t enter Chile: they couldn&#8217;t prove they had no police record.<br \/>\n   The Mayflower pilgrims were sent back to sea from the coast of Massachusetts: the immigration quotas were full. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Eduardo Galeano&#8217;s &#8220;Voices of Time: A Life in Stories.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The History that Might Have Been Christopher Columbus couldn&#8217;t discover America: he didn&#8217;t have a visa or even a passport. Pedro Alvares CAbral couldn&#8217;t get off the boat in Brazil: he might have been carrying smallpox, measles, the flu, or other foreign plagues. Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro could never have begun the conquest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}