{"id":2249,"date":"2024-03-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2249-a-little-miracle-in-pallaskenry.html"},"modified":"2024-03-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T01:30:00","slug":"a-little-miracle-in-pallaskenry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2249-a-little-miracle-in-pallaskenry.html","title":{"rendered":"A Little Miracle In Pallaskenry"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2915 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"618\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/37-_G2A9196.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFriday night, for reasons nothing to do with photography, I found myself in the little Irish town of Pallaskenry with around an hour of free time. Never having been there before, and knowing nothing about this place, I set off down the main street looking for something interesting to photograph.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI soon found Saint Mary&#8217;s Roman Catholic Church, a Gothic Revival church on the edge of town where I began with the statue of St Brigid as it was well lit by the street.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo the rear of the church I noticed a large mound upon which stood the statue of the Virgin Mary with her silhouette in sharp relief on the rear wall of the yard. This I thought would make for an interesting image so I made my way to the back of the yard, turned around, and was greeted by this amazing sight.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Lady did not move, she remained as still as stone, but I to me this unexpected vision was a little miracle indeed.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#pallaskenry #saintmarys #church #ireland #night #photography #silhouette<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday night, for reasons nothing to do with photography, I found myself in the little Irish town of Pallaskenry with around an hour of free time. Never having been there before, and knowing nothing about this place, I set off down the main street looking for something interesting to photograph. I soon found Saint Mary&#8217;s &#8230; <a title=\"A Little Miracle In Pallaskenry\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2249-a-little-miracle-in-pallaskenry.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Little Miracle In Pallaskenry\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}