{"id":46169,"date":"2015-07-26T04:45:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T11:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46169"},"modified":"2015-07-26T04:49:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T11:49:26","slug":"dr-shashi-tharoor-goes-viral-britain-does-owe-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/26\/dr-shashi-tharoor-goes-viral-britain-does-owe-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Shashi Tharoor goes viral. &#8211; Britain Does Owe Reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>The motion: This house believes Britain owes reparations to her former colonies.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION SOCIETY: The Union is the world&#8217;s most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. It has been established for 189 years, aiming to promote debate and discussion not just in Oxford University, but across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>2.3 millions watched and 3700 commented.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr Shashi Tharoor MP - Britain Does Owe Reparations\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7CW7S0zxv4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The motion: This house believes Britain owes reparations to her former colonies. ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION SOCIETY: The Union is the world&#8217;s most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. It has been established for 189 years, aiming to promote debate and discussion not just in Oxford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}