{"id":2908,"date":"2011-09-26T19:26:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T00:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2011-09-27T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T15:42:05","slug":"international-peace-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/2908","title":{"rendered":"International Peace Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2909\" style=\"margin: 6px\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2011\/09\/443562755_899c104549-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" \/><strong>By Claire De Roin&#8211;<br \/>\n<\/strong>The  International Students Association brought International Peace Day to  campus with a paper crane folding table outside of the cafeteria  Wednesday, September 21.<\/p>\n<p>Chisato  Murillo and Jessica Sievers were staffing the table at dinner, teaching  students how to fold square pieces of paper into cranes. Each colorful  paper bore a fact about international issues such as violence against  women and the financial state of third-world countries.<\/p>\n<p>Some students  folded their cranes quickly with little instruction while others needed  help on each step. Murillo and Sievers were patient and helpful through  the entire process with each new student. In addition, there were many  other ISA members at the table throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>How did the event come about?<\/p>\n<p>Nancy  Waterstraat, a junior counseling psychology\/international affairs  double major, originally from Stralsund, Germany, got the idea for the  event while looking at her calendar. \u201cI saw that September 21 was International Peace Day. I did some research. I found out that it\u2019s  the first meeting of the General Assembly of the U.N. Basically, this  was a spur of the moment idea. Origami cranes are a symbol of peace, so  that\u2019s why we decided to go with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Claire De Roin&#8211; The International Students Association brought International Peace Day to campus with a paper crane folding table outside of the cafeteria Wednesday, September 21. Chisato Murillo and Jessica Sievers were staffing the table at dinner, teaching students how to fold square pieces of paper into cranes. Each colorful paper bore a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}