{"id":1678,"date":"2017-01-30T15:09:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T15:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2017-03-06T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:38:57","slug":"1986-peace-marchers-reunite-for-womens-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"1986 peace walkers reunite for Women&#8217;s March"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1679\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1679\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/101-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/101-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/101-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/101-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/101-1200x898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Thom Unger, KD Kidder, Karen Doherty and Don Cunning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1986, about 500 people marched across the United States for almost nine months, from Los Angeles to New York to Washington, in a demonstration against nuclear weapons. The trek became known as the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/1986-peace-walk-participants-reunite-for-womens-march-on-washington\/2017\/01\/27\/88f448f0-e495-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?utm_term=.600f23a74fcb\" target=\"_blank\">a dozen of those peace marchers reunited and laced up their walking shoes once again<\/a> to take part in the Women\u2019s March on Washington. For KD Kidder, 65, of Leesburg, it was an opportunity to rekindle old friendships and express her concerns about the political direction she thinks the country is taking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/1986-peace-walk-participants-reunite-for-womens-march-on-washington\/2017\/01\/27\/88f448f0-e495-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?utm_term=.600f23a74fcb\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>, Jan. 29, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1986, about 500 people marched across the United States for almost nine months, from Los Angeles to New York to Washington, in a demonstration against nuclear weapons. The trek became known as the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament. Last week, a dozen of those peace marchers reunited and laced up their walking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1986 peace walkers reunite for Women&#8217;s March&#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":[8],"tags":[10,14,3,35],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-history","tag-leesburg","tag-loudoun-county","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}