{"id":2970,"date":"2022-08-20T21:51:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T05:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2022-08-20T21:51:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T05:51:37","slug":"the-adventure-begins-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/2022\/08\/20\/the-adventure-begins-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adventure Begins Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tomorrow, I fly to Spain and begin walking the Camino on Tuesday, August 23rd.  I will be walking alone, unless other pilgrims care to walk along with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But one very special person will be with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember the day I gave Joanne the wedding ring with a large diamond.  She melted with joy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After her passing, I did not know what to do with the ring.  A good friend of mine suggested that I sell it to finance my trip to Spain.  But over time the one carat diamond had been chipped and lost value.  Again, I did not know what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then one day I had an epiphany. The scallop shell is the symbol of Camino pilgrimages.  I decided to mount the diamond on a scallop shell to be worn as a necklace.  In this way, Joanne will be with me on this pilgrimage. Yes, I have a very large romantic side.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"522\" src=\"http:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ring.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ring.jpg 640w, https:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ring-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, I fly to Spain and begin walking the Camino on Tuesday, August 23rd. I will be walking alone, unless other pilgrims care to walk along with me. But one very special person will be with me. I remember the day I gave Joanne the wedding ring with a large diamond. She melted with joy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2972,"href":"https:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyourleft.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}