{"id":19941,"date":"2026-03-23T08:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19941"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:49:28","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-salome-and-the-head-of-john-the-baptist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-salome-and-the-head-of-john-the-baptist\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Salome and the Head of John the Baptist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>his is my favourite of the luminous stained-glass windows in the little chapel of Saint-Jean le Froid. <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">It depicts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salome\" target=\"_blank\">Salome<\/a>, the daughter of Herodias,\u00a0as a smirky, slightly mischievous girl who just happens to be holding the head of the Saint on a platter.<\/span> To me, the expression on the Baptist&#8217;s face seems to be one of disappointment. You can read one version of the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=mark%206%3A21-29&amp;version=RSVCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53332751429_48c6fd02cf_o-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53332751429_48c6fd02cf_o-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53332751429_48c6fd02cf_o-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53332751429_48c6fd02cf_o-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53332751429_48c6fd02cf_o-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53332751429_48c6fd02cf_o-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53332751429_48c6fd02cf_o-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>06 September 2023 <br><strong>Place:<\/strong> Chapelle Saint-Jean-le-Froid, Lot D\u00e9partement, Region of Occitanie, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Maps!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"is-style-default wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"963\" height=\"660\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-21.png 963w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-21-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-21-150x103.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-21-768x526.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 963px) 100vw, 963px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"is-style-default wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1092\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-1536x655.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-2048x873.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my favourite of the luminous stained-glass windows in the little chapel of Saint-Jean le Froid. It depicts\u00a0Salome, the daughter of Herodias,\u00a0as a smirky, slightly mischievous girl who just happens to be holding the head of the Saint on a platter. To me, the expression on the Baptist&#8217;s face seems to be one of disappointment. You can read one [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19941","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\/19941","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=19941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19944,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941\/revisions\/19944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}