{"id":88032,"date":"2026-11-02T09:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T14:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88032"},"modified":"2026-11-02T09:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T14:29:32","slug":"karl-bushby-completes-28-year-31000-mile-walk-around-world-and-returns-to-mothers-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/karl-bushby-completes-28-year-31000-mile-walk-around-world-and-returns-to-mothers-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Bushby Completes 28-Year, 31,000-Mile Walk Around World And Returns To Mother\u2019s House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Associated Press:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Karl Bushby completed his <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/karl-bushby-world-walk-hull-england-home-afa4377d070c2217cdb963f3f4404e40\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">28-year odyssey to walk around the world<\/a><\/span> Monday by returning to his mother\u2019s home in northern England. Bushby embraced his emotional mother, Angela, outside her row house in Hull, England, which he left in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>They were surrounded by journalists, a documentary film crew and a large crowd outside the home that had a banner saying \u201cWelcome Home Son.\u201d\u00a0 Bushby was a 29-year-old ex-paratrooper when he walked away from the home to a Royal Air Force base near Oxford and caught a flight to South America. He returned as a 57-year-old \u2014 softer, grayer and weathered, but far more worldly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Associated Press: Karl Bushby completed his 28-year odyssey to walk around the world Monday by returning to his mother\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88033,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88032\/revisions\/88033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}