{"id":207,"date":"2008-11-16T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T11:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/?p=207"},"modified":"2012-11-06T01:32:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T00:32:15","slug":"angelic-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Angelic Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"angel.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/angel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image206\" src=\"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/angel.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"angel.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>St Mary&#8217;s Church in Hitchin is full of little gems such as this angel. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s an original or a Victorian reproduction. If it is an original, then I&#8217;m surprised it survived the iconoclasts&#8217; destruction; But as Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews pointed out, they only pulled down statues of saints that people prayed to and not angels to which people didn&#8217;t pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Mary&#8217;s Church in Hitchin is full of little gems such as this angel. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s an original or a Victorian reproduction. If it is an original, then I&#8217;m surprised it survived the iconoclasts&#8217; destruction; But as Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews pointed out, they only pulled down statues of saints that people prayed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,67,10,70,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angels","category-architecture","category-art","category-iconoclasts","category-st-marys-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}