{"id":10387,"date":"2020-08-24T17:24:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=10387"},"modified":"2020-08-24T17:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:24:28","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-paradise-glimpsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-paradise-glimpsed\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Paradise Glimpsed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">W<\/span>hile Eamon and Petra surged ahead, propelled by youth and long legs, Patrick, Viola, and I struggled, exhorting and encouraging each other, occasionally shouting and swearing at the wind. When we crested the (almost) last hill and saw the town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada in the valley below us, we shouted and wept for joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was, we decided, the most beautiful city ever built by human hands. The streets are paved with chorizo and jamon, the fountains flow with vino tinto and the river is surely cerveza. Angels sing of its wonders. If we could have danced for joy, we would have.<\/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\/08\/8730192764_2878e3f5da_o-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8730192764_2878e3f5da_o-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8730192764_2878e3f5da_o-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8730192764_2878e3f5da_o-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8730192764_2878e3f5da_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> approaching Santo Domingo de la Calzada (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>While Eamon and Petra surged ahead, propelled by youth and long legs, Patrick, Viola, and I struggled, exhorting and encouraging each other, occasionally shouting and swearing at the wind. When we crested the (almost) last hill and saw the town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada in the valley below us, we shouted and wept for joy. It was, we [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10387","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\/10387","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=10387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10389,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387\/revisions\/10389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}