{"id":1283,"date":"2007-07-24T15:59:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T13:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/long-walks-and-parties\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T13:59:56","slug":"long-walks-and-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/long-walks-and-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"long walks and parties."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, in Nijmegen there were the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vierdaagse\"><br \/>\n    Vierdaagse<\/a>,<br \/>\n    according to Wikipedia the largest marching event in the world. Roughly 40.000 people walked<br \/>\n    for four days, every day between 30 &#8211; 50 km, depending on age and some other things. Only<br \/>\n    ~3000 did not make it. Those days go together with the &#8220;Zomerfeesten&#8221;, a week-long festival<br \/>\n    in the whole city centre, attracting 1 Million people throughout the week, with a peak on<br \/>\n    Friday, the finishing day of the Vierdaagse.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n    Friday was also the day when Kenny (our great aKademy overlord from Glasgow) came to Nijmegen,<br \/>\n    as a part of his vacation. I&#8217;m not sure he was prepared for a city full of people partying,<br \/>\n    30 &#8211; 40 stages in the whole city and the celebrations starting around noon. He&#8217;s chosen the<br \/>\n    busiest day of the year to visit this city. =)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n    After aKademy, I was quite exhausted for roughly a week, and I had to catch up on other work<br \/>\n    which has been left undone for the week before. I&#8217;m quite up to speed with all activities<br \/>\n    again now. Today was mostly dealing with administrative stuff for the e.V., such as preparing<br \/>\n    travels for the next months and hotel booking for the Board meeting we&#8217;re holding at the<br \/>\n    beginning of August in Darmstadt.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n    My TODO list for the next days includes some aKademy aftermath (merchandising, logistics mainly)<br \/>\n    and sorting out businesscards status. I&#8217;ll also do some more hacking on the<br \/>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/vizzzion.org\/?blogentry=716\">Battery plasmoid<\/a>, but<br \/>\n    that is really freetime \/ evening activities.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, in Nijmegen there were the Vierdaagse, according to Wikipedia the largest marching event in the world. Roughly 40.000 people walked for four days, every day between 30 &#8211; 50 km, depending on age and some other things. Only ~3000 did not make it. Those days go together with the &#8220;Zomerfeesten&#8221;, a week-long festival&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/long-walks-and-parties\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">long walks and parties.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}