{"id":124,"date":"2020-03-15T14:39:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T14:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2020-03-15T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T14:39:26","slug":"leopold-2-king-of-the-belgians-philanthropist-humanitarian-bastard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/15\/leopold-2-king-of-the-belgians-philanthropist-humanitarian-bastard\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopold 2, King of the Belgians: Philanthropist, Humanitarian, Bastard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>P&#038;C review Pigweed&#8217;s latest homebrewed pale ale, made with homegrown hops. Then they discuss that monstrous bastard, Leopold the 2nd, King of the Belgians.<\/p>\n<p>Leopold&#8217;s reign began in 1865. At that time, slavery was on the outs in most of the world, but Leopold didn&#8217;t seem to mind it. He thought that in order to be a major world power, Belgium had to have a colony. But the Belgian constitution forbade it. So Leopold did a fantastically sneaky end-around. (He was a bastard, but a clever one.)<\/p>\n<p>Leopold hired Stanley, the famous explorer, to go trick the people of the Congo to sign phony treaties. This set loose a horrifying series of abuses in the Congo River basin.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Europe, Leopold is being praised as a humanitarian.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a horrific story.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/13553309\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P&#038;C review Pigweed&#8217;s latest homebrewed pale ale, made with homegrown hops. Then they discuss that monstrous bastard, Leopold the 2nd, King of the Belgians. Leopold&#8217;s reign began in 1865. At that time, slavery was on the outs in most of the world, but Leopold didn&#8217;t seem to mind it. He thought that in order to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/15\/leopold-2-king-of-the-belgians-philanthropist-humanitarian-bastard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leopold 2, King of the Belgians: Philanthropist, Humanitarian, Bastard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}