{"id":7517,"date":"2018-06-28T07:56:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=7517"},"modified":"2018-06-26T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T18:11:50","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-taking-the-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-taking-the-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Taking the Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he street the Camino follows out of Villafranca rather suddenly turns into a staircase. There are a number of places on the Camino where this is true, and it never ceases to fascinate me. In the U.S., where the majority of streets and roads were built with the automobile in mind, this would almost never happen. I don&#8217;t say <em>absolutely<\/em> never, as I&#8217;m aware of a couple of exceptions, but it is much more common in Spain, particularly in the older sections of towns and villages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?attachment_id=7518\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7518\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27810923210_b1aa1c9ffc_k-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27810923210_b1aa1c9ffc_k-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27810923210_b1aa1c9ffc_k-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27810923210_b1aa1c9ffc_k-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27810923210_b1aa1c9ffc_k-560x747.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27810923210_b1aa1c9ffc_k-260x347.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27810923210_b1aa1c9ffc_k-160x213.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27810923210_b1aa1c9ffc_k.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date: 24 April 2016<br \/>\nPlace: Villafranca del Bierzo (Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Spain)<\/p>\n<p>Since Villafranca is midway through our day, two maps are required.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-villafranca-at-last\/el_camino_frances_26m-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7494\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-546x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-546x1024.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-80x150.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-768x1440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-533x999.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m-260x488.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/El_Camino_Frances_26m.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-welcome-to-ponferrada\/el_camino_frances_25m-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7238\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/El_Camino_Frances_25m-546x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/El_Camino_Frances_25m-546x1024.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/El_Camino_Frances_25m-80x150.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/El_Camino_Frances_25m-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/El_Camino_Frances_25m-768x1440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/El_Camino_Frances_25m-533x999.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/El_Camino_Frances_25m-260x488.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/El_Camino_Frances_25m.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The street the Camino follows out of Villafranca rather suddenly turns into a staircase. There are a number of places on the Camino where this is true, and it never ceases to fascinate me. In the U.S., where the majority of streets and roads were built with the automobile in mind, this would almost never happen. I don&#8217;t say absolutely [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7517","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\/7517","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=7517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}