{"id":14088,"date":"2015-05-19T23:32:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T22:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14088"},"modified":"2015-05-19T23:32:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T22:32:32","slug":"the-world-is-my-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14088","title":{"rendered":"The World is my Country Exhibition comes to Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15051907.jpg\" alt=\"The World is my Country\" \/><br \/>\nAt St Nicolas Church a small exhibition has been put on, at the invitation of the Abingdon Peace Group, telling the stories of people, from both sides of the WWI conflict, who resisted the call to arms. There was also a talk this evening at St Nic&#8217;s church about these people.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15051903.jpg\" alt=\"The World is my Country\" \/><br \/>\nOn the way to the talk, I took a picture of a rainbow arching above the church and County Hall.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15051905.jpg\" alt=\"The World is my Country\" \/><br \/>\nThe first half of the evening got us talking together in groups, trying to discover the reasons why some people, as various as a Jamaican Carpenter, and a Huddersfield member of the British Socialist Party, resisted the call to fight for King and Country.<\/p>\n<p>At the end we were asked to share an experience when we had stood up for something we believed in, when most people were of the opposing view. Listening to two members of the Abingdon Peace Group I realised they had stood up for their beliefs in self defining ways.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half we heard  three stories. One was of a Maori Princess, shown in the poster above, who led her people in a campaign of non violent protest against conscription. <\/p>\n<p>To see the posters and read the stories visit St Nicolas Church over the next few days, or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/theworldismycountry.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The World is My Country<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At St Nicolas Church a small exhibition has been put on, at the invitation of the Abingdon Peace Group, telling the stories of people, from both sides of the WWI conflict, who resisted the call to arms. There was also a talk this evening at St Nic&#8217;s church about these people. On the way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14088","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=14088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}