{"id":82,"date":"2004-06-17T00:27:54","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T14:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2005-09-06T00:28:14","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T14:28:14","slug":"gargoyles-old-and-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Gargoyles &#8211; old and new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I spent a bit of time poking around the UK I have been fascinated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stratis.demon.co.uk\/gargoyles\/gg-ety-hist-myth.htm#gargoyle_origin_list\">phenomenon of gargoyles<\/a> &#8211; part rook plumbing devices, part caricature, and part irreverent iconography. The site above discusses the history of these strange carvings, and this one is of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonecarver.com\/gargoyle.html\">a modern maker of gargoyles<\/a> I was intrigued also at the discovery that Star Wars&#8217; <i>Darth Vader<\/i> appears as a gargoyle gracing the roof line of the cathedral in Washington DC in the USA!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>Jerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I spent a bit of time poking around the UK I have been fascinated by the phenomenon of gargoyles &#8211; part rook plumbing devices, part caricature, and part irreverent iconography. The site above discusses the history of these strange carvings, and this one is of a modern maker of gargoyles I was intrigued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-journal","category-travel","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}