{"id":9472,"date":"2013-06-28T18:50:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T18:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=9472"},"modified":"2013-06-28T18:50:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T18:50:27","slug":"tibetan-buddhist-peace-garden-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/tibetan-buddhist-peace-garden-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan Buddhist Peace Garden in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"775\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4L1ch8BdExk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\u00a0Interesting that it is quite possible to do a good design which is also the wrong design. This is what I think happened in the case of Hamish Horsley&#8217;s 1999 design for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/tibetan_peace_garden_imperial_war_museum\">Tibetan Peace Garden<\/a> beside the Imperial War Museum, as explained in the video. Part of the problem is the small scale and obscure location of the Peace Garden vis-a-vis the War Museum. Surely we all prefer peace to war and to not want to see peace tucked away in a convenient, if noisy, corner. I think the scale problem could still be resolved, and cheaply, by placing prayer flag high in the trees &#8211; to let them waft their prayers for peace to every corner of the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Interesting that it is quite possible to do a good design which is also the wrong design. This is what I think happened in the case of Hamish Horsley&#8217;s 1999 design for the Tibetan Peace Garden beside the Imperial War Museum, as explained in the video. Part of the problem is the small scale and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}