{"id":1699,"date":"2014-03-31T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2014-03-31T08:48:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T15:48:37","slug":"one-year-ago-starting-my-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/one-year-ago-starting-my-pilgrimage\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year Ago: Starting my Pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"drop\">One year ago today, Easter Sunday it was, I boarded a plane at SeaTac International Airport and flew to Spain.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">M<\/span>y Easter dinner was at O&#8217;Hare in Chicago. Of course it Chicago-style pizza! From here, I took an overnight flight, and arrived on another continent a day later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/2014\/03\/31\/one-year-ago-starting-my-pilgrimage\/8612659043_58610698d8_z\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1700\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/8612659043_58610698d8_z.jpg\" alt=\"Easter Dinner, 2013\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/8612659043_58610698d8_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/8612659043_58610698d8_z-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/8612659043_58610698d8_z-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we saw <a href=\"http:\/\/caminodocumentary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walking the Camino<\/a>, a documentary, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandcinema.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Grand Cinema<\/a>. It was my second time and Francine&#8217;s first. I was struck again by how faithful it was to the spirit of the Camino de Santiago.<\/p>\n<p>Although it tells the stories of six specific pilgrims, both Francine and I found echoes of our own experiences in theirs. Parts of it were just like being there, on the Way again.<\/p>\n<p>And for the second time, I cried at the opening scene, where one of the pilgrims arrives at the square in front of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately afterwards, we walked around Snake Lake and reminisced and planned in the glorious afternoon greenery, stomping through the mud up and down hill.<\/p>\n<p>Total walking yesterday was a paltry 6 kilometers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago today, Easter Sunday it was, I boarded a plane at SeaTac International Airport and flew to Spain. My Easter dinner was at O&#8217;Hare in Chicago. Of course it Chicago-style pizza! From here, I took an overnight flight, and arrived on another continent a day later. Yesterday we saw Walking the Camino, a documentary, at The Grand Cinema. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","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=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}