{"id":540,"date":"2015-09-18T12:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T12:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/?p=540"},"modified":"2018-08-21T14:41:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:41:49","slug":"lights-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/en\/english\/lights-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioned by CBK Nijmegen, Dutch filmmaker Martijn Schinkel made a short, poetic, almost silent, little documentary about a bridge as a monument.<\/p>\n<p>On September 20, 1944, 48 American paratroopers of the 82<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Airborne Division lost their lives during\u00a0the heroic crossing of the\u00a0River\u00a0Waal at Nijmegen.\u00a0This battle was crucial in the liberation of Nijmegen. A memorial commemorates this military action.\u00a0<!--more-->And a role of honor lists the names of these men.\u00a0The new city bridge opened in 2013 connecting the banks of the Waal\u00a0on the exact location of this historical crossing.\u00a0\u00a0Lights Crossing is the title of an integrated work of art by Atelier Veldwerk. It marks the bridge as a monument and makes it the largest war memorial in the Netherlands. Every single day\u00a0when darkness falls the 48 pairs of\u00a0lights repeat the\u00a0meaningful\u00a0crossing.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0P1KpMuR1hs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioned by CBK Nijmegen, Dutch filmmaker Martijn Schinkel made a short, poetic, almost silent, little documentary about a bridge as a monument. On September 20, 1944, 48 American paratroopers of the 82nd\u00a0Airborne Division lost their lives during\u00a0the heroic crossing of the\u00a0River\u00a0Waal at Nijmegen.\u00a0This battle was crucial in the liberation of Nijmegen. A memorial commemorates this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"168","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","en-US"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bg.jpg?fit=1761%2C1205&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}