{"id":10272,"date":"2020-06-25T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2020-06-25T12:30:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T19:30:15","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-headless-statues-and-a-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-headless-statues-and-a-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Headless Statues &#8211; and a Bonus!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">A<\/span>lthough I took many photos of the delightful monastic cloister at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-entering-santa-maria-la-real\/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Mar\u00eda la Real<\/a> in N\u00e1jera, for some reason all of them were blurry. This is, I think, the best. If you look closely at the statues along both sides, you will see that many are headless. As a bonus (by way of apologizing for the lack of posting the past few days) I&#8217;ve enclosed a second photo of the sign which helps explain why that is. What it doesn&#8217;t tell you is that after the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ecclesiastical_confiscations_of_Mendiz%C3%A1bal\" target=\"_blank\">Disentailment<\/a>, the government turned the monastery into a prison, and the guards amused themselves by shooting the heads off the statues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"765\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730124654_724af49215_o-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730124654_724af49215_o-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730124654_724af49215_o-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730124654_724af49215_o-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730124654_724af49215_o-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730124654_724af49215_o-1536x1147.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730124654_724af49215_o-2048x1530.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730124654_724af49215_o-560x418.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730124654_724af49215_o-260x194.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730124654_724af49215_o-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"765\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730119242_96ac3eca14_o-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730119242_96ac3eca14_o-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730119242_96ac3eca14_o-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730119242_96ac3eca14_o-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/8730119242_96ac3eca14_o-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 09 April 2013<br><strong>Place:<\/strong> N\u00e1jera (La Rioja, Spain)<br><strong>Today started:<\/strong> in Ventosa (La Rioja, Spain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_10m-546x1024.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is El_Camino_Frances_10m-546x1024.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_09m-546x1024.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is El_Camino_Frances_09m-546x1024.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I took many photos of the delightful monastic cloister at Santa Mar\u00eda la Real in N\u00e1jera, for some reason all of them were blurry. This is, I think, the best. If you look closely at the statues along both sides, you will see that many are headless. As a bonus (by way of apologizing for the lack of posting [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=10272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10278,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions\/10278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}