{"id":944,"date":"2016-08-01T20:29:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T20:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/?p=944"},"modified":"2018-09-11T06:47:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:47:55","slug":"in-nijmegen-albanys-sister-city-45000-walk-their-way-to-world-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/en\/english\/in-nijmegen-albanys-sister-city-45000-walk-their-way-to-world-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"In Nijmegen, Albany’s sister city, 45,000 walk their way to world peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo Ger Loeffen.<\/p>\n

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By Paul Grondahl\/Times Union July 26, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n

Albany<\/h3>\n

>> Used with permission and previously published in the\u00a0Times Union<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have just returned from a week’s assignment in Nijmegen, the oldest city in the Netherlands and Albany’s sister city, and I was struck by the restorative power of long walks.<\/p>\n

It may not be a prescription for world peace, but the international understanding and goodwill spread during communal walking was underscored by 45,000 people representing 68 countries who walked 25 or 30 miles a day for four consecutive days. They walked seven or eight hours at a stretch and endured searing heat and heavy rains during the 100th anniversary of “The Walk of the World” in Nijmegen (pronounced NYE-may-gun). It’s called the Vierdaagse in Dutch, or the Four Days Marches…<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0more on www.timesunion.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo Ger Loeffen.   By Paul Grondahl\/Times Union July 26, 2016 Albany >> Used with permission and previously published in the\u00a0Times Union. I have just returned from a week’s assignment in Nijmegen, the oldest city in the Netherlands and Albany’s sister city, and I was struck by the restorative power of long walks. It may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"741","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","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\/2018\/09\/Vierdaagse-foto-Ger-Loeffen-.jpg?fit=700%2C375&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichtingfan.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}