{"id":5173,"date":"2017-04-05T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T16:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2017-04-05T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T16:22:28","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-walking-down-to-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-walking-down-to-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Walking Down to the River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">W<\/span>here most medieval towns are on the high ground, snugged around a defensible hill, or located in a narrow and easily defensible bit of land, the city of Santo Domingo de la Calzada is in a river valley, open to the world. It&#8217;s defense seems to be that it really is difficult to see until you are very close. Or perhaps it just has something to do with its origins as a village founded by the saint to facilitate the crossing of the Rio Oja. And yes, the region was named after the river.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?attachment_id=5174\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5174\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/25832859384_f428ffef32_k-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/25832859384_f428ffef32_k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/25832859384_f428ffef32_k-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/25832859384_f428ffef32_k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/25832859384_f428ffef32_k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/25832859384_f428ffef32_k-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/25832859384_f428ffef32_k-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/25832859384_f428ffef32_k-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/25832859384_f428ffef32_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date: 09 April 2016<br \/>\nPlace: In view of Santo Domingo de la Calzada (La Rioja, Spain)<\/p>\n<p>Map! Here&#8217;s our route out of Azofra, destination: unknown!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-first-breakfast\/el_camino_frances_10m\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4895\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_10m-546x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_10m-546x1024.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_10m-80x150.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_10m-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_10m-768x1440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_10m-533x999.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_10m-260x488.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/El_Camino_Frances_10m.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where most medieval towns are on the high ground, snugged around a defensible hill, or located in a narrow and easily defensible bit of land, the city of Santo Domingo de la Calzada is in a river valley, open to the world. It&#8217;s defense seems to be that it really is difficult to see until you are very close. Or [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-map","category-photo-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","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=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5176,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions\/5176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}