{"id":46,"date":"2009-11-24T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2009-11-24T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T12:58:00","slug":"the-ghost-forest-in-the-rain-trafalgar-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-ghost-forest-in-the-rain-trafalgar-square\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost Forest in the rain, Trafalgar Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in Trafalgar Square for one week only was an unusual art exhibition featuring the large tree stumps from nine different species sourced from Suhuma forest reserve, a commercially logged tropical forest in Western Ghana. <\/p>\n<p>The fully grown trees would have reached around 50 metres &#8211; the same height as Nelson&#8217;s Column.<\/p>\n<p>The hefty stumps distributed around the square were designed to raise questions about the future of the world&#8217;s vulnerable forests, although we found ourselves wondering how much of a carbon footprint was created by lugging the things here.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghost Forest installation finished on Sunday Nov 22 2009 and headed off to a public square in Copenhagen, to be seen during the UN Climate Change Conference. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/traf-sq-ghost-forest-02.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"292\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/traf-sq-ghost-forest-03.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"284\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/traf-sq-ghost-forest-05.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/traf-sq-ghost-forest-09.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"284\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/traf-sq-ghost-forest-07.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"275\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/trafalgar-square-ghost-forest.html\" target=\"_blank\">More pics here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in Trafalgar Square for one week only was an unusual art exhibition featuring the large tree stumps from nine different species sourced from Suhuma forest reserve, a commercially logged &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,10,35],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","tag-art","tag-london","tag-trafalgar-square"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/traf-sq-ghost-forest-02.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}