{"id":830,"date":"2009-12-10T07:58:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T13:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2009-12-22T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T20:20:03","slug":"pain-of-war-told-with-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2009\/12\/10\/pain-of-war-told-with-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain of War told with Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vOhf3OvRXKg<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg\">Video Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>In the above video, Kseniya Simonova, a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine&#8217;s version of &#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221; uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and &#8220;sand painting&#8221; skills to interpret Germany&#8217;s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.<\/p>\n<p>You would think that a medium such as sand would not lend itself to being graphic, but the pain of war is clearly conveyed through her finger strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Take the time to watch the whole video. \u00a0At first you will be captivated by her skill, but very quickly you will drawn in by the story of the invasion and the subsequent pain and\u00a0tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vOhf3OvRXKg [Video Link] In the above video, Kseniya Simonova, a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine&#8217;s version of &#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221; uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and &#8220;sand painting&#8221; skills to interpret Germany&#8217;s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII. You would think that a medium such as sand would not lend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[122,451,452,346,38],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-pain","tag-sand","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}