{"id":5198,"date":"2017-04-11T08:07:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2017-04-10T21:59:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T04:59:30","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-santo-domingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-santo-domingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Santo Domingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he Cathedral square of the town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada was crowded with Confirmands and their families and godparents. We knew we wouldn&#8217;t have much time, but we ducked into the Cathedral itself to visit the saint. His story resonates pretty strongly with me. I won&#8217;t bore you with the details (that&#8217;s what <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominic_de_la_Calzada\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia <\/a>is for), but here&#8217;s the core: he thought God was calling him to be a monk. He tried to gain admittance to two different monasteries, and they both sent him away. Instead, he found his mission for the people of God in a totally different place. He started by building a bridge for pilgrims at the site of the city that now bears his name. Then he spent the rest of his life working on the Camino, making it a true road by cutting trees, building embankments and causeways, and tamping flat the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Santo Domingo de la Calzada, pray for us who have recourse to you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?attachment_id=5199\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5199\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/26429011936_8a8e9b501c_k-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/26429011936_8a8e9b501c_k-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/26429011936_8a8e9b501c_k-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/26429011936_8a8e9b501c_k-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/26429011936_8a8e9b501c_k-560x747.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/26429011936_8a8e9b501c_k-260x347.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/26429011936_8a8e9b501c_k-160x213.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/26429011936_8a8e9b501c_k.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date: 09 April 2016<br \/>\nPlace: Santo Domingo de la Calzada (La Rioja, Spain)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cathedral square of the town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada was crowded with Confirmands and their families and godparents. We knew we wouldn&#8217;t have much time, but we ducked into the Cathedral itself to visit the saint. His story resonates pretty strongly with me. I won&#8217;t bore you with the details (that&#8217;s what Wikipedia is for), but here&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memories","category-photo-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198","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=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}