{"id":1721,"date":"2008-01-18T16:55:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T20:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2008-01-18T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T20:58:45","slug":"around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"Around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span> couple of <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1722' rel='attachment wp-att-1722' title='Rosie Swale Pope'><img class=\"alignright\"  src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/r_dale_wal_king_th_rough_ns.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Rosie Swale Pope' \/><\/a>days ago, the local news paper had an article about a lady from Wales <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trurodaily.com\/index.cfm?sid=98421&#038;sc=68\">who&#8217;s walking around the world<\/a>. Rosie  Swale Pope started her run in 2003 and is scheduled to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosiearoundtheworld.co.uk\/\">finish her travels this year<\/a>.  She passed by Truro, I think and is on her way to Halifax now.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Daily News also has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trurodaily.com\/index.cfm?main=broadcast&#038;bcid=1449\">a short video clip<\/a>, which shows her walking through one of our famous (Canadian) Winter storms (I bet that the clip won&#8217;t be archived and will go in the Halls of 404 in a couple of years, so I&#8217;d say hurry and watch it, before it disappears). Looking at the footage, I keep thinking how dangerous it is to actually walk on the road with that big of a cart behind you.\n<\/p>\n<p>That said: good for her for doing this on her own. Stay safe and stay clear from the snowplows, ma&#8217;am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, the local news paper had an article about a lady from Wales who&#8217;s walking around the world. Rosie Swale Pope started her run in 2003 and is scheduled to finish her travels this year. She &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1721\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,12],"tags":[73,199,254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}