{"id":2573,"date":"2014-06-07T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2014-06-07T22:33:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T20:33:59","slug":"2573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/06\/07\/2573\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abi and I took another <a href=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/04\/02\/walk-to-velsen-zuid\/\">long walk<\/a> today. We set off from Oostzaan in glorious hot sunshine around 08:30 and headed South. Took the ferry across the IJ to Tasmanstraat, and continued to the Vondelpark, where we stopped for a snack at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devondeltuin.nl\/\">Vondeltuin<\/a>. Then onwards to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amsterdamsebos.nl\/\">Amsterdamse Bos<\/a> where I pondered the mild ridiculousness of having lived within walking distance of Amsterdam for seven years now, and never having set foot there before. It&#8217;s really nice. It was like visting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golden-gate-park.com\/\">Golden Gate Park<\/a> last year for the first time, after having been a regular visitor to the Bay Area since 1991.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2014\/leaning-trees-of-lomanstraat.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1002\" alt=\"leaning trees of lomanstraat\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Leaning Trees of Lomanstraat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2014\/yay-public-art.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1083\" alt=\"birth of change by Server Verheugen\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YAY PUBLIC ART (<i>Birth of Change<\/i> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sergeverheugen.nl\/\">Serge Verheugen<\/a>, just near one of the main entraces to the Bos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2014\/family-ties.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" alt=\"family ties by serve verheugen\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Family Ties<\/i>, also by Serge Verheugen, just a little bit farther into the Bos. AKA the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mocreatures.org\/\">Mo&#8217; Creatures Mod<\/a>&#8220;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The walk came to 22.6km, according to my GPS tracking app. A nice distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abi and I took another long walk today. We set off from Oostzaan in glorious hot sunshine around 08:30 and headed South. Took the ferry across the IJ to Tasmanstraat, and continued to the Vondelpark, where we stopped for a snack at the Vondeltuin. Then onwards to the Amsterdamse Bos where I pondered the mild &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/06\/07\/2573\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amsterdam walk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1773],"tags":[1663,1780,1781],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-walks","tag-amsterdam","tag-walk","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}