{"id":1547,"date":"2012-01-16T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2012-01-16T17:02:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T00:02:28","slug":"bed-sheets-in-support-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"Bed sheets in support of peace:)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am asking people who live along the highway from Victoria to Nanaimo to hang one or more white bed sheets  on their front lawn adjacent to the highway&#8230;. as a way to celebrate and support world peace. (From the middle of January to the end of April if possible)<br \/>\nThe idea is based on the Iraqi woman who left the infamous Ameriyah bomb shelter in Baghdad to go and do her laundry. After she had left the shelter, a missile struck, killing several hundred people including  her eight children. It was a terrible act of violence and I have created an art installation at the Nanaimo Art gallery in her honour. My web site gives more details about the show.  https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/<br \/>\nMy installation features hanging bed sheets:)<br \/>\nThere is also another artist, Amy Loewan, who also has an excellent show on in the gallery, featuring peace.<br \/>\nBoth exhibitions run from January 13th to April 14th at the Nanaimo Art Gallery, 900 Fifth Street. (University location)<\/p>\n<p>Many people say that they would like to do &#8220;something&#8221; to make our world a better place. This small act of hanging a bed sheet is one way to show support for peace.<br \/>\nThank you all for your support. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am asking people who live along the highway from Victoria to Nanaimo to hang one or more white bed sheets on their front lawn adjacent to the highway&#8230;. as a way to celebrate and support world peace. (From the middle of January to the end of April if possible) The idea is based on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}