{"id":17315,"date":"2024-02-20T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T19:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=17315"},"modified":"2024-02-20T11:51:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T19:51:53","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-french-pilgrims-walking-down-the-crater-rim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-french-pilgrims-walking-down-the-crater-rim\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: French Pilgrims Walking Down the Crater Rim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">A<\/span>fter the village of Le Chier, the general downward slope of the Camino got a bit steeper. Le Puy sits inside an ancient volcanic caldera, and much of this morning&#8217;s walk was climbing up out of the crater. Now I was climbing down the other side. The view here led to this, one of my favourite photos of pilgrims on the Camino. There&#8217;s something here that very much emblematic of the Via Podiensis &#8211; particularly the first third &#8211; and the pilgrims who walk it, with their floppy hats and market bags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/53378618379_4f1831ca38_o-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/53378618379_4f1831ca38_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/53378618379_4f1831ca38_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/53378618379_4f1831ca38_o-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/53378618379_4f1831ca38_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/53378618379_4f1831ca38_o-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/53378618379_4f1831ca38_o-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>18 August 2023 <br><strong>Place:<\/strong> between Le Chier and Saint-Privat-d&#8217;Allier, 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-full is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"955\" height=\"655\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/VP-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/VP-01.png 955w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/VP-01-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/VP-01-150x103.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/VP-01-768x527.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 955px) 100vw, 955px\" \/><\/figure>\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>After the village of Le Chier, the general downward slope of the Camino got a bit steeper. Le Puy sits inside an ancient volcanic caldera, and much of this morning&#8217;s walk was climbing up out of the crater. Now I was climbing down the other side. The view here led to this, one of my favourite photos of pilgrims on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17315","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\/17315","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=17315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17319,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315\/revisions\/17319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}