{"id":7123,"date":"2012-08-07T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arliemediadesign.com\/?p=7123"},"modified":"2025-03-29T08:56:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:56:35","slug":"celebrating-diversity-with-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happy.co.uk\/blogs\/celebrating-diversity-with-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Diversity with the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This idea was especially inspired by the World in London photography exhibition in Victoria Park, alongside the Olympics viewing area. This aims to show a picture of a Londoner from every country in the world. It is a great tribute to these people and to our amazing city. (They managed to find Londoners born in 204 different countries, only missing out on Palau and the Marshall Islands.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And at Happy we\u2019ve long sought to celebrate cultural diversity. 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