{"id":739519,"date":"2026-08-16T05:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739519\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T05:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:02:19","slug":"man-90-with-parkinsons-walks-90-miles-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739519\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 90, with Parkinson&#8217;s walks 90 miles for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man with Parkinson&#8217;s disease has been celebrating his 90th birthday weekend by completing a 90-mile (145km) walking challenge to raise money and awareness for charity Parkinson&#8217;s UK. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Treasure, from Congresbury, near Bristol, began the challenge on the 22 January and walked 0.1-mile (160m) loops of his cul-de-sac using his walker whenever he felt able.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His daughter Ruth Treasure Smith said it was difficult to put into words, but she felt &#8220;extreme pride&#8221; over her dad&#8217;s achievement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A GoFundMe set up at the start of Treasure&#8217;s walk has so far raised more than \u00a33,500, which Treasure said he was &#8220;very happy&#8221; about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man with Parkinson&#8217;s disease has been celebrating his 90th birthday weekend by completing a 90-mile (145km) walking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}