{"id":1158,"date":"2009-04-19T23:28:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T06:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2009-04-20T06:17:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T13:17:55","slug":"ashlands-sister-city-guanajuato-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2009\/04\/ashlands-sister-city-guanajuato-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashland&#8217;s Sister City &#8211; Guanajuato, Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000746.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1159\" title=\"ashland guanajuato 40 year anniversary sister city flags\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000746-800x583.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000746-800x583.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/p1000746.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many cities have a sister city, or two, or more. Your town probably has one too. Chances are you don&#8217;t even know what other places form such a partnership with yours. For instance, I lived in San Jose, California for more than six years but I didn&#8217;t know San Jose had eight sister cities, let alone what those eight were.<\/p>\n<p>That isn&#8217;t the case with Ashland. We have perhaps the best sister city relationship on the planet. It is with Guanajuato, Mexico near Leon. Not only would more than 9 out of 10 people in Ashland be able to identify Guanajuato as Ashland&#8217;s sister city, but a significant portion of the population has participated in some way with that relationship. For instance, my kids had people from Guanajuato visit their school classes this past week. I&#8217;ve even <a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/mexico\/\">been to Guanajuato<\/a>&#8211;not once but three times thanks to the Ashland-Guanajuato partnership.<\/p>\n<p>This week we are celebrating the 40 years of ongoing and ever-growing partnerships between Ashland and Guanajuato. As part of the celebrations the town&#8217;s main street of Siskiyou Boulevard has been lined with American and Mexican flags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many cities have a sister city, or two, or more. Your town probably has one too. Chances are you don&#8217;t even know what other places form such a partnership with yours. For instance, I lived in San Jose, California for more than six years but I didn&#8217;t know San Jose had eight sister cities, let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[14,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}