{"id":13019,"date":"2022-06-28T08:18:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=13019"},"modified":"2022-08-08T08:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:18:10","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-walking-the-dragons-spine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-walking-the-dragons-spine\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Walking the Dragon&#8217;s Spine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>hese sorts of treacherous granite descents (and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-primitivo-the-present-is-a-gift\/\" target=\"_blank\">ascents<\/a>!) are not uncommon on the Camino. Francine calls them dragon spines. This particular one just as you&#8217;re leaving Riego de Ambr\u00f3s is definitely one of the more challenging. It looks nice enough in this photo, but in 2016 it had been raining, and I <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-a-treacherous-descent\/\" target=\"_blank\">slipped and fell<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/9037705339_fe20b5fd3a_k-765x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/9037705339_fe20b5fd3a_k-765x1024.jpeg 765w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/9037705339_fe20b5fd3a_k-224x300.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/9037705339_fe20b5fd3a_k-112x150.jpeg 112w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/9037705339_fe20b5fd3a_k-768x1028.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/9037705339_fe20b5fd3a_k-1148x1536.jpeg 1148w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/9037705339_fe20b5fd3a_k.jpeg 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 22 April 2013<strong><br>Place:<\/strong> leaving Riego de Ambr\u00f3s (Region of El Bierzo, Province of Le\u00f3n, Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Spain)<br><strong>Today started:<\/strong> Rabanal del Camino (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\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_24m-546x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_24m-546x1024.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_24m-80x150.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_24m-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_24m-768x1440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_24m-533x999.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_24m-260x488.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_24m.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>These sorts of treacherous granite descents (and ascents!) are not uncommon on the Camino. Francine calls them dragon spines. This particular one just as you&#8217;re leaving Riego de Ambr\u00f3s is definitely one of the more challenging. It looks nice enough in this photo, but in 2016 it had been raining, and I slipped and fell. Date: 22 April 2013Place: leaving [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13019","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\/13019","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=13019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13138,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019\/revisions\/13138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}