{"id":914,"date":"2009-04-04T23:15:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T22:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/?p=914"},"modified":"2009-04-04T23:15:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T22:15:30","slug":"manna-hatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/manna-hatta\/","title":{"rendered":"Manna Hatta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"articleimgleft\" title=\"Halve Maen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-images\/halvemaen.jpg\" alt=\"Halve Maen\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Today it is exactly 400 years ago that <a title=\"Henry Hudson 400\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhudson400.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Hudson<\/a> left Amsterdam to find a faster &#8216;road&#8217; to Asia and eventually found an island that was called Manna Hatta &#8211; many hills. Manhattan, New York City. We loved it. And in one of those incomparable, unbeatable American bookshops I bought &#8216;Island at the centre of the World&#8217; by Russell Shorto, director of the <a title=\"John Adams Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.john-adams.nl\/home\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Adams Institute<\/a>, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, of which I was a member for many years. Yes. I&#8217;m reading the book now and tonight we went to an evening with lectures by Russell Shorto, Geert Mak and some Indian Chief, who should have been planned, but wasn&#8217;t and conquered the microphone. The evening itself was not so memorable: too many speakers. But you should read Shorto&#8217;s book and the small Volkskrant book (Forgotten History &#8211; Vergeten Geschiedenis). It made us understand why we felt so at home in New York. And, not insignificant, it&#8217;s nice that we can also be a little bit proud of what we&#8217;ve done in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it is exactly 400 years ago that Henry Hudson left Amsterdam to find a faster &#8216;road&#8217; to Asia and eventually found an island that was called Manna Hatta &#8211; many hills. Manhattan, New York City. We loved it. And in one of those incomparable, unbeatable American bookshops I bought &#8216;Island at the centre of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algemeen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}