{"id":7448,"date":"2023-12-27T17:41:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2024-05-08T14:41:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:41:20","slug":"the-feast-of-saint-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7448","title":{"rendered":"THE FEAST OF SAINT STEPHEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today on certain religious calendars is St. Stephen&#8217;s day, ie. the day Good King Wencelas and page marched through a snow storm to provide a surprise feast for a lowly peasant.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?attachment_id=7449\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7449\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7449\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Saint-Stehens-Gate-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"7085\" height=\"4728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Saint-Stehens-Gate-1.jpg 7085w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Saint-Stehens-Gate-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Saint-Stehens-Gate-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Saint-Stehens-Gate-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 7085px) 100vw, 7085px\" \/><\/a><strong>ST. STEPHEN&#8217;S GATE, TEMPLE MOUNT, JERUSALEM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to legend, Saint Stephen was the first Christian to have been martyred. He was stoned to death in front of this gate which had been previously known as the Lion&#8217;s gate due to the artistic embellishments on both sides of the upper facade around the central arch.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on certain religious calendars is St. Stephen&#8217;s day, ie. the day Good King Wencelas and page marched through a snow storm to provide a surprise feast for a lowly peasant.\u00a0 ST. STEPHEN&#8217;S GATE, TEMPLE MOUNT, JERUSALEM According to legend, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7448\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-people","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7513,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions\/7513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}