{"id":3,"date":"2007-05-06T17:57:44","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T16:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/?p=3"},"modified":"2008-07-14T10:01:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T09:01:35","slug":"welcome-to-hitchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"A Gargoyle&#8217;s View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"triangle-cafe-8.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/triangle-cafe-8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"triangle-cafe-8.jpg\" id=\"image7\" src=\"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/triangle-cafe-8.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine if you will, that you&#8217;re a Gargoyle. What would you see all day long? Who would you look down upon in your stiff stone life? Are you there to protect the church, to scare away non-believers or other demonic creatures? Whatever the fact is, this is one of the views of one of the Gargoyles on St Mary&#8217;s Church overlooking the Triangle Caf\u00e9, The War Memorial  and other shops.<\/p>\n<p>(NB. The word Gargoyle comes from Old French <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Garguoille<\/span> and Late Latin <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Gurgulio<\/span>, both meaning &#8216;Throat&#8217; and indicates one of the uses of a Gargoyle; that of a water spout for rain water) Here from the top of St. Mary&#8217;s Church, you can see the roof tops of some of the buildings  that encircle Market Place, one of them being the lovely Triangle Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if you will, that you&#8217;re a Gargoyle. What would you see all day long? Who would you look down upon in your stiff stone life? Are you there to protect the church, to scare away non-believers or other demonic creatures? Whatever the fact is, this is one of the views of one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,31,28,20,3,29,27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churches","category-gargoyles","category-hitchin","category-market-place","category-roofs","category-st-marys-church","category-triangle-cafe","category-war-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","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=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroundhitchin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}