{"id":19330,"date":"2020-09-30T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=19330"},"modified":"2020-09-30T15:10:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:10:29","slug":"goodbye-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/goodbye-columbus\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=oct20_flipbook&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=12&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nMaybe we should get out of the business of honoring human beings in bronze or pot metal and concentrate on sweet, brave animals as inspirations for statues. Let\u2019s face it, we\u2019re inevitably going to uncover something unsavory at best in a \u2018hero\u2019s\u2019 past, if not criminal acts. That\u2019s what makes us human.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Read the full\u00a0letter in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/category\/editor\/\">Click here to\u00a0view\u00a0more\u00a0<strong>Letters from the Editor.<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1130,1129,1132,1131],"class_list":["post-19330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-andre-the-seal","tag-columbus","tag-fido","tag-greyfriars-bobbie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19384,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19330\/revisions\/19384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}