{"id":693,"date":"2007-10-21T09:57:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T08:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=693"},"modified":"2007-10-21T09:57:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T08:57:30","slug":"the-world-in-one-city-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"The World In One City &#8211; revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three months ago, I blogged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2007\/07\/the_world_in_one_city.html\">here<\/a> about a project called <a href=\"http:\/\/worldinonecity.blogspot.com\/\">&#8220;The World In One City&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis is a project that Owen Powell (who posted a comment on my blog) and Alex Horne started on 24 October 2006 (United Nations Day), and which they hope to finish in just a few days&#8217; time, on the same date this year. Their aim is to prove that London &#8211; where I&#8217;ve lived for for 36 years &#8211; is the most cosmopolitan city in the world, by endeavouring to meet and chat to a citizen from every country in the world who currently lives and works in London.<br \/>\nThey reckon that, according to the UN, there are 192 countries in the world and so far they have contacted and interviewed people in London from 184. I wish the guys well in trying to hit their target but, whatever happens, they have demonstrated how cosmopolitan London is and I bet they&#8217;ve had some fun and  made some friends along the way.<br \/>\nOf course, even better than meeting someone from every country in the world would be visiting every nation on the globe &#8211; but that would take more than a year. At the venerable age of 59, this week I will be visiting my 48th country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three months ago, I blogged here about a project called &#8220;The World In One City&#8221;. This is a project that Owen Powell (who posted a comment on my blog) and Alex Horne started on 24 October 2006 (United Nations Day), and which they hope to finish in just a few days&#8217; time, on the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}