{"id":385,"date":"2010-02-20T08:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T12:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exploreperth.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2010-02-20T08:30:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T12:30:39","slug":"perths-sister-city-celebrates-800th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/perths-sister-city-celebrates-800th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth&#039;s Sister City Celebrates 800th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perth, Ontario\u2019s sister city, Perth, Scotland, is celebrating its 800<sup>th<\/sup> birthday this 2010, and officials from the Canadian town are working to put together a delegation which will be sent to the Scottish city.<\/p>\n<p>The city, which sits along the banks of the old River Tay and has a population of 43,000 residents, is gearing up for a host of anniversary celebrations and events this summer, these include visits from dozens of sister communities scattered all over the world. Some of the centuries-old city\u2019s twin communities are from Gernmany, France, China, and of course, here in Ontario. Officials from Perth, Scotland have promised to welcome their guests to the city like family.<\/p>\n<p>While the city is a place rich in history, it\u2019s grown to become a major shopping and retail district today for surround communities. The city boasts of a large shopping centre matched with wide sidewalks, and a great number of specialty shops like antique stores and the like.<\/p>\n<p>And like Perth,  Ontario, the city also has big swimming facility. Opened in the 80\u2019s, the Perth Leisure Pool is widely regarded as one of Scotland\u2019s premiere tourist destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Canadian town are already buzzing with excitement, as the lucky delegates who will be sent to Scotland will get first-class treatment, complete with a tour of the city\u2019s sights and attractions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perth, Ontario\u2019s sister city, Perth, Scotland, is celebrating its 800th birthday this 2010, and officials from the Canadian town are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[146,147,149],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perth-ontario-news","tag-perth-scotland","tag-perth-sister-city","tag-perth-twin-communities"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJPiZ-6d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}