{"id":9530,"date":"2011-04-14T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=9530"},"modified":"2011-04-14T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T18:30:06","slug":"workers-prepare-for-statue-of-confucius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/04\/workers-prepare-for-statue-of-confucius\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers prepare for statue of Confucius"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9531\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9531\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9531 \" title=\"work crews at dig a hole to prepare for a statue of Confucius at Brock University\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/confucius2.jpg\" alt=\"Work crews prepare for a statue of Confucius at the International Centre.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work crews prepare for a statue of Confucius at the International Centre.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Work crews are digging a hole at the International Centre this week to prepare for a new statue of Confucius.<\/p>\n<p>Workers are preparing the ground for the base of the statue, which will commemorate the establishment of Brock&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/confucius-institute\" target=\"_blank\">Confucius Institute<\/a>. The unique statue of the ancient Chinese educator and philosopher is a gift of partner institution Minjang University.<\/p>\n<p>The institute will be located in the International Centre. It will offer an array of programs, special events and exhibitions to promote Chinese language and culture in Niagara.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is welcome at the formal grand opening of the Confucius Institute at Brock on Sunday, May 15. The event will be at 1:30 p.m. in the Sean O&#8217;Sullivan Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crews are digging a hole at the International Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,3],"tags":[165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9533,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions\/9533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}