{"id":35187,"date":"2021-06-07T13:19:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T13:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=35187"},"modified":"2021-06-07T13:19:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T13:19:54","slug":"egerton-ryerson-statue-toppled-of-architect-of-shameful-school-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=35187","title":{"rendered":"Egerton Ryerson: Statue toppled of architect of &#8216;shameful&#8217; school system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A statue in Toronto has been toppled of a man who helped create a school system which forcibly assimilated indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p>Egerton Ryerson was an architect of Canada&#8217;s residential schools, which abducted more than 150,000 indigenous children, who were often not allowed to speak their language. Many were mistreated and abused.<\/p>\n<p>At Ryerson University, protesters gathered to remember the 215 indigenous children found in a mass grave at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-57386353\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statue in Toronto has been toppled of a man who helped create a school system which forcibly assimilated indigenous people. Egerton Ryerson was an architect of Canada&#8217;s residential schools, which abducted more than 150,000 indigenous children, who were often not allowed to speak their language. Many were mistreated and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/118829337_tv067876706.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}