{"id":20370,"date":"2021-09-08T17:27:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T17:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=20370"},"modified":"2021-09-08T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T17:27:35","slug":"statue-of-confederate-general-robert-e-lee-comes-down-in-virginiaunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=20370","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee comes down in VirginiaUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as workers hoisted one of the nation\u2019s largest Confederate monuments off a pedestal where the figure of General Robert E. Lee towered over Virginia\u2019s capital city for more than a century.The statue was lowered to the ground just before 9am, after a construction worker who strapped harnesses around Lee and his horse lifted his arms in the air and counted, \u201cThree, two, one!\u201d to jubilant shouts from hundreds of people. A work crew then began cutting it\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3148062\/statue-general-robert-e-lee-comes-down-virginia?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as workers hoisted one of the nation\u2019s largest Confederate monuments off a pedestal&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}