{"id":2000,"date":"2010-06-30T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yolandagranados.com\/crg\/happy-birthday-congo\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T00:19:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T00:19:24","slug":"happy-birthday-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/2010\/06\/30\/happy-birthday-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide is-core-separator-block\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px\">\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n  <div id=\"anchor-nav-position-block_5f0cfa0182a72\" class=\"c-block-anchor-nav-position o-wrapper__inner\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;\">\n    <div class=\"js-anchor-nav-position\"><\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"c-anchor-nav__mobile\">\n      <nav class=\"c-anchor-nav \"><span class=\"c-anchor-nav__heading\"> <\/span><ul class=\"c-anchor-nav__links o-list-bare\"><li class=\"c-anchor-nav__item\"><a href=\"#%20\" class=\"c-anchor-nav__link \"> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:30px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px\" class=\"is-core-paragraph-block has-space-small-mb\">Happy Birthday, Congo.I have posted below Patrice Lumumba&rsquo; independence speech that he read in from of parliament and King Baudouin on June 30th, 1960. Whatever one might think of Lumumba &ndash; I often find him to be more popular outside of the Congo &ndash; it was a great speech, given in response to King Baudouin&rsquo;s statement that the Congo had benefited from &ldquo;the genius of Leopold.&rdquo; I think Louis Michel, the former Belgian foreign minister who recently <a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/9\/30345\">said<\/a> that Leopold had been &ldquo;a visionary hero,&rdquo; would do well to read it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-core-image-block\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_WCbif0e62eM\/TCtZZREJ3vI\/AAAAAAAAANU\/IkG2TVl6N6k\/s1600\/images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_WCbif0e62eM\/TCtZZREJ3vI\/AAAAAAAAANU\/IkG2TVl6N6k\/s400\/images.jpg\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_WCbif0e62eM\/TCtZZREJ3vI\/AAAAAAAAANU\/IkG2TVl6N6k\/s400\/images.jpg\" class=\" lazyload is-lazyload u-img-fluid blurs-media-img\"><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:30px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px\" class=\"is-core-paragraph-block has-space-small-mb\">You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africawithin.com\/lumumba\/independence_speech.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday, Congo.I have posted below Patrice Lumumba&rsquo; independence speech that he read in from of parliament and King Baudouin on June 30th, 1960. Whatever one might think of Lumumba&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}