{"id":37793,"date":"2021-07-10T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=37793"},"modified":"2021-07-10T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T13:38:00","slug":"charlottesville-removes-robert-e-lee-statue-that-sparked-deadly-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=37793","title":{"rendered":"Charlottesville removes Robert E Lee statue that sparked deadly rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A statue of an American Confederate general at the centre of a violent rally in Charlottesville nearly four years ago has been taken down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The statue of General Robert E Lee will be put into storage, alongside another of General Thomas &#8220;Stonewall&#8221; Jackson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Plans to remove the Lee statue prompted a white nationalist rally in August 2017, which resulted in the murder of an anti-racism protester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Read more<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-57788220\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Statue that sparked deadly rally being removed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-57789430\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statue of an American Confederate general at the centre of a violent rally in Charlottesville nearly four years ago has been taken down. The statue of General Robert E Lee will be put into storage, alongside another of General Thomas &#8220;Stonewall&#8221; Jackson. Plans to remove the Lee statue prompted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37793","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\/07\/119339346_mediaitem119339345.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37793","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=37793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}