{"id":12142,"date":"2022-04-08T08:59:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=12142"},"modified":"2022-04-08T08:59:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:59:37","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-triskelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-triskelion\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Triskelion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>his striking plaque, mounted to a gate in the village of El Ganso, contains three symbols: the shell of Saint James, the Cross of Christ, and the Celtic <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triskelion\" target=\"_blank\">Triskelion<\/a>. This latter is an ancient symbol, going back at least 6,000 years, and is sometimes associated with Celtic cultures. The oldest meanings of the symbol are obscure and contested, but by the Medieval era, it had become in many places symbolic of the Holy Trinity and was often used in the windows of Gothic churches.<\/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\/2022\/04\/9038696432_1fa7959b5a_k-1024x765.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9038696432_1fa7959b5a_k-1024x765.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9038696432_1fa7959b5a_k-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9038696432_1fa7959b5a_k-150x112.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9038696432_1fa7959b5a_k-768x574.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9038696432_1fa7959b5a_k-1536x1148.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9038696432_1fa7959b5a_k-560x418.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9038696432_1fa7959b5a_k-260x194.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9038696432_1fa7959b5a_k-160x120.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9038696432_1fa7959b5a_k.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 21 April 2013<strong><br>Place:<\/strong> El Ganso (Province of Le\u00f3n, Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Spain)<br><strong>Today started:<\/strong> Astorga (Province of Le\u00f3n, Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Spain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_23m-546x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_23m-546x1024.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_23m-80x150.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_23m-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_23m-768x1440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_23m-533x999.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_23m-260x488.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_23m.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\" id=\"block-504ee084-3f25-44ca-a84e-cc2407034f76\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Camino-Map-Cathedral-Cities-1024x627.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Camino-Map-Cathedral-Cities-1024x627.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This striking plaque, mounted to a gate in the village of El Ganso, contains three symbols: the shell of Saint James, the Cross of Christ, and the Celtic Triskelion. This latter is an ancient symbol, going back at least 6,000 years, and is sometimes associated with Celtic cultures. The oldest meanings of the symbol are obscure and contested, but by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12142","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\/12142","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=12142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12144,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142\/revisions\/12144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}