We are rapidly approaching the one-year anniversary of our Camino. And, God willing, exactly two years from today we will leave on our next one.<\/p>\n
In the next month or so, I’ll be posting photos, day by day, of last year’s Camino, with my ruminations on each day a year later.<\/p>\n
This is not exactly for you, dear reader (though I hope you will be amused and interested), but it will be primarily for me. There’s a lot I feel like I have yet to process from our pilgrimage, and I hope this reliving and reviewing will help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are rapidly approaching the one-year anniversary of our Camino. And, God willing, exactly two years from today we will leave on our next one. In the next month or so, I’ll be posting photos, day by day, of last year’s Camino, with my ruminations on each day a year later. This is not exactly for you, dear reader (though […]<\/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-83899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-lPd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":91273,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/cultivating-pilgrim-spirituality\/","url_meta":{"origin":83899,"position":0},"title":"Cultivating Pilgrim Spirituality","author":"Thom","date":"18 June 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Solvitur ambulando: It is solved by walking. 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