{"id":17236,"date":"2024-01-23T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=17236"},"modified":"2024-01-23T12:42:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:42:59","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-heavens-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-heavens-above\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Heavens Above"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he vaulted and domed ceiling over the sanctuary of the church of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-saint-michel-daiguilhe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Saint Michel d\u2019Aiguilhe<\/a> retains much of its original tenth century paint. It depicts Christ on His throne, surrounded by angels and saints. The symbols of the four Evangelists are at the corners, and Saint Michael is depicted slaying the dragon. In person, it&#8217;s awe-inspiring. Every tourist and pilgrim I observed here fell silent as they looked up at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/53314928671_0bf6a8a3b0_4k-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/53314928671_0bf6a8a3b0_4k-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/53314928671_0bf6a8a3b0_4k-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/53314928671_0bf6a8a3b0_4k-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/53314928671_0bf6a8a3b0_4k-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/53314928671_0bf6a8a3b0_4k-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>17 August 2023 <br><strong>Place: <\/strong>Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire D\u00e9partement, Region of Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, France <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Maps!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"437\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-1024x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-1536x655.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VP-arrow-01-Le-Puy-2048x873.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vaulted and domed ceiling over the sanctuary of the church of Saint Michel d\u2019Aiguilhe retains much of its original tenth century paint. It depicts Christ on His throne, surrounded by angels and saints. The symbols of the four Evangelists are at the corners, and Saint Michael is depicted slaying the dragon. In person, it&#8217;s awe-inspiring. Every tourist and pilgrim [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day-2023","category-via-podiensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236","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=17236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17239,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236\/revisions\/17239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}