{"id":3511,"date":"2016-04-15T09:51:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T16:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2016-04-15T09:59:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T16:59:22","slug":"on-having-walked-26km-today-from-castrojeriz-to-fromista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/on-having-walked-26km-today-from-castrojeriz-to-fromista\/","title":{"rendered":"On Having Walked 26km Today from Castrojeriz to Fr\u00f3mista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">E<\/span>ach day of our pilgrimage, it has pleased God to send us a new trial. If it is not hills to climb, then it is rain. If it is not rain, then mud. If not mud, then a driving wind.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, it pleased God to send us all of these in succession.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_9371.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_9371.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nTo these trials must be added the moment by moment reminders of our fragile mortality: the pains in our backs, our hips, our legs, and our feet &#8211; oh, the pains in our feet!<\/p>\n<p>But today we have also been given marvelous gifts and consolations: the wonder of climbing up into a cloud, the exuberant joy of goldfinches dancing in the wind, the love of a husband and a wife and their laughter in adversity, the undeniable pleasure of a hot shower, the cheer and comfort of friends and good wine.<\/p>\n<p>Even the consolation of achievement pales before these.<\/p>\n<p>God strengthens us in our trials, and He strengthens us to face the unknown trials ahead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_9348-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_9348-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each day of our pilgrimage, it has pleased God to send us a new trial. If it is not hills to climb, then it is rain. If it is not rain, then mud. If not mud, then a driving wind.&nbsp; Today, it pleased God to send us all of these in succession.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; To these trials must be added the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pilgrim-reports","category-ruminations","category-thom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","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=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}