{"id":7644,"date":"2025-11-14T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/?p=7644"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:02:15","slug":"the-nattering-about-working-on-the-red-light-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/nieuws\/podcast\/de-ouwehoeren-over-werken-op-de-wallen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ouwehoeren on love, work and dignity on the Red Light District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This time, Jim is on his own. In a special episode, he talks to legendary twin sisters Martine and Louise Fokkens, better known as the Ouwehoeren.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Amsterdam honesty and humour<\/h2>\n<p>With their characteristic Amsterdam humour and razor-sharp honesty, Martine and Louise talk about love, work and dignity. Without a filter, they share their views on life, their work and what it means to remain yourself in a world full of judgement.<\/p>\n<p>They talk about jealousy, sandwich bags, chininess and what they think makes a good sex worker. No clich\u00e9s, but sobriety, pride and a good dose of self-mockery.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>On affection, money and life lessons<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The conversation is about being a streetwalker as an attitude to life, about attention and affection, and about the little things that matter. They talk about clients who used to be \"worth 500 guilders\", about Albert Kuipjes instead of psychiatrists, and about the importance of being seen.<\/p>\n<p>The sisters look back without melancholy, but with humour and wisdom, exactly as only Amsterdammers can.<\/p>\n<p>Curious about more stories from the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood? Listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/podcasts\/\">here<\/a> our other podcast episodes!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deze keer is Jim in z\u2019n eentje aan zet. In een speciale aflevering spreekt hij met de legendarische tweelingzussen Martine en Louise Fokkens, beter bekend als de Ouwehoeren. Amsterdamse eerlijkheid en humor Met hun kenmerkende Amsterdamse humor en vlijmscherpe eerlijkheid praten Martine en Louise over liefde, werk en waardigheid. Zonder filter delen ze hun kijk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[78],"waar-nieuwsbericht-tonen":[36],"class_list":["post-7644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-tip-van-de-redactie","waar-nieuwsbericht-tonen-home-eerste-blok"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7644"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7730,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions\/7730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7644"},{"taxonomy":"waar-nieuwsbericht-tonen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/waar-nieuwsbericht-tonen?post=7644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}