{"id":3124,"date":"2016-01-22T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?page_id=3124"},"modified":"2016-01-22T08:37:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:37:45","slug":"the-road","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

O<\/span>f all the photos I took on our 2013 Camino – and I took thousands of them – this is the one that for me best sums up the spirit of the pilgrimage.<\/p>\n

\"Francine<\/a>

Francine in the Mists of Galicia<\/p><\/div>\n

It was taken as we walked through the Galician forests on our way to the Royal Monastery of Samos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It reminds me very strongly of Bilbo’s Old Walking Song<\/em>, which I sometimes sang softly on the Way:<\/p>\n

The Road goes ever on and on
\nDown from the door where it began.
\nNow far ahead the Road has gone,
\nAnd I must follow, if I can,
\nPursuing it with eager feet,
\nUntil it joins some larger way,
\nWhere many paths and errands meet.
\nAnd whither then? I cannot say.<\/p>\n

Roads go ever ever on,
\nOver rock and under tree,
\nBy caves where never sun has shone,
\nBy streams that never find the sea;
\nOver snow by winter sown,
\nAnd through the merry flowers of June,
\nOver grass and over stone,
\nAnd under mountains in the moon.<\/p>\n

Roads go ever ever on
\nUnder cloud and under star,
\nYet feet that wandering have gone
\nTurn at last to home afar.
\nEyes that fire and sword have seen
\nAnd horror in the halls of stone
\nLook at last on meadows green
\nAnd trees and hills they long have known.<\/p>\n

The Road goes ever on and on
\nOut from the door where it began.
\nNow far ahead the Road has gone,
\nLet others follow it who can!
\nLet them a journey new begin,
\nBut I at last with weary feet
\nWill turn towards the lighted inn,
\nMy evening-rest and sleep to meet.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all the photos I took on our 2013 Camino – and I took thousands of them – this is the one that for me best sums up the spirit of the pilgrimage. It was taken as we walked through the Galician forests on our way to the Royal Monastery of Samos. It reminds me very strongly of Bilbo’s Old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3124","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3126,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3124\/revisions\/3126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}