{"id":61585,"date":"2013-04-26T23:18:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T06:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/were-not-dead\/"},"modified":"2013-05-03T00:44:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T07:44:02","slug":"were-not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/were-not-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Not Dead!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been without wifi for several days now, so I thought I’d post a quick note in lieu of full updates to follow later.<\/p>\n

We’re currently having breakfast in a bar in Samos, across the street from the stupendous monastery where we spent the night. The bar has wifi (obviously), but we need to get on our way.<\/p>\n

Chant Mass last night in the monastery. Today we should lunch in Sarria.<\/p>\n

Eamon caught up and walked with us yesterday.<\/p>\n

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We’ve been without wifi for several days now, so I thought I’d post a quick note in lieu of full updates to follow later. We’re currently having breakfast in a bar in Samos, across the street from the stupendous monastery where we spent the night. The bar has wifi (obviously), but we need to get on our way. Chant Mass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-g1j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":84004,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/one-year-ago-the-royal-monastery-of-samos\/","url_meta":{"origin":61585,"position":0},"title":"One Year Ago: the Royal Monastery of Samos","author":"Thom","date":"26 April 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"(from my journal) Royal Monastery of Samos 26 April 2013 Francine and I had a shorter walk today to Samos through beautiful Galician misty farmland and woods with Anja. 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