{"id":1267,"date":"2010-08-06T00:28:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T23:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2010-08-06T00:28:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T23:28:57","slug":"a-thousand-paper-cranes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"A thousand paper cranes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Visitors from Hiroshima\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10080506.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn August 6, 1945 a 9700-pound uranium bomb destroyed the city of Hiroshima.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Visitors from Hiroshima\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10080502.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSixty Five years later visitors from Hiroshima &#8211; on their way to Coventry &#8211; came to Abingdon to present a letter from the Mayor of Hiroshima to the Mayor of Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Visitors from Hiroshima\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10080501.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDuring this week the former Adams shop has become a place of peace where people  make origami cranes. Most only make one&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Visitors from Hiroshima\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10080503.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nbut these three children and their mum made forty paper cranes last night.<\/p>\n<p>There is a japanese saying that one who folds 1,000 cranes is granted a wish, and Abingdon is making a 1,000 cranes for Peace in the shop.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Visitors from Hiroshima\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10080505.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAnne Dodd visited Hiroshima last year and the visit is partly a result of the friends she made.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia has a fuller story of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sadako_Sasaki\">Sadoko Sasaki<\/a> from Hiroshima who tried to make a thousand paper cranes while suffering from Leukemia &#8211; the atomic bomb disease as her mother called it. <\/p>\n<p>(This Abingdon Blog is having a rest for a week &#8211; back soon. In the mean time visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Fold-a-Paper-Crane\">How to Fold a Paper Crane<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 6, 1945 a 9700-pound uranium bomb destroyed the city of Hiroshima. Sixty Five years later visitors from Hiroshima &#8211; on their way to Coventry &#8211; came to Abingdon to present a letter from the Mayor of Hiroshima to the Mayor of Abingdon. During this week the former Adams shop has become a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-hiroshima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}