{"id":180020,"date":"2025-10-01T01:58:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=180020"},"modified":"2025-10-01T01:58:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:58:25","slug":"facts-never-speak-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=180020","title":{"rendered":"Facts never speak for themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of EH Carr\u2019s What Is History? when I read Kevin Baldeosingh\u2019s letter, \u201cTeach fact-based African history\u201d. He excoriated the Emancipation Support Committee (ESC) for not spending \u201ca single cent from the millions given to them by [the] government to commission such a [history] book\u201d which he wanted them to write from a<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/opinion\/columnists\/facts-never-speak-for-themselves\/article_d941b7fe-7977-4686-9e47-3421bf4b9bea.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of EH Carr\u2019s What Is History? when I read Kevin Baldeosingh\u2019s letter,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180020-facts-never-speak-for-themselves.jpg",646,339,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180020-facts-never-speak-for-themselves-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180020-facts-never-speak-for-themselves-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180020-facts-never-speak-for-themselves.jpg",640,336,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180020-facts-never-speak-for-themselves.jpg",640,336,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180020-facts-never-speak-for-themselves.jpg",646,339,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180020-facts-never-speak-for-themselves.jpg",646,339,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180020-facts-never-speak-for-themselves.jpg",646,339,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180020-facts-never-speak-for-themselves.jpg",646,339,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180020-facts-never-speak-for-themselves-590x339.jpg",590,339,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/180021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}