{"id":94,"date":"2019-07-06T18:43:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T22:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/?p=94"},"modified":"2019-07-17T16:31:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T20:31:35","slug":"life-in-the-school-colonies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/2019\/07\/06\/life-in-the-school-colonies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the school colonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drawings of children living in school colonies generally depict their new life in a positive light, perhaps expressing the relief children felt coming from a dangerous and depressing situation to a well equipped school colony. However, there is evidence that not all children\u2019s reactions to evacuation into school colonies were entirely positive.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These mixed feelings were expressed in some of the children\u2019s drawings which show themes of loneliness and homesickness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/files\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-11-at-6.41.33-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, this drawing made by an 11 year old boy depicts a dormitory in the school colony. The room appears very bare and lacks joy or character, creating an overall mood of uniformity and desolation. This mood likely reflects a sense of isolation the child felt from being separated from his family and friends, and a sense of nostalgia for his more lively home before the war.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/2019\/07\/06\/life-in-the-school-colonies-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life in the school colonies<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawings","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/childrenofthewar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}