{"id":2298,"date":"2024-10-01T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2298-if-only-these-walls-could-talk.html"},"modified":"2024-10-01T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:39:00","slug":"if-only-these-walls-could-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2298-if-only-these-walls-could-talk.html","title":{"rendered":"If Only These Walls Could Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2967 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/87-_G2A0532-HDR.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nA visit to an old church always demands reverences but here in Youghal, St. Mary&#8217;s Collegiate Church held a deep magic that almost brought us to tears.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAt over 800 years old, the care with which it has been maintained tells everything about its importance as a place of worship, ceremony and social cohesion for the people of Youghal and its surrounds.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe lingered here for a few hours trying to get a sense of all that had taken place here. As the expression goes, \u2018if only these walls could talk\u2019.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#Youghal #StMarysCollegiateChurch #churches #architecture #ireland #travel #cork #sacred #churchofireland<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visit to an old church always demands reverences but here in Youghal, St. Mary&#8217;s Collegiate Church held a deep magic that almost brought us to tears. At over 800 years old, the care with which it has been maintained tells everything about its importance as a place of worship, ceremony and social cohesion for &#8230; <a title=\"If Only These Walls Could Talk\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2298-if-only-these-walls-could-talk.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about If Only These Walls Could Talk\">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-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","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=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}