{"id":5991,"date":"2015-11-23T10:35:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T10:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2015-11-23T10:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T10:35:57","slug":"death-the-maiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=5991","title":{"rendered":"Death &#038; The Maiden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on <a href=\"http:\/\/deadmaidens.com\/2015\/11\/23\/beauty-secrets-of-the-martyrs\/#more-1479\">DeadMaidens.com<\/a> today, talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1910857009\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1910857009&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ratwingle-21\">Beauty Secrets of The Martyrs<\/a> and the first time I met an incorrupt saint.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dmbw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5992\" src=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dmbw-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"dmbw\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dmbw-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dmbw-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dmbw.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>I was fifteen when I stood over the incorrupt body of Saint Spyridon. It was my first visit to Corfu, a summer holiday with my parents. Peeking out onto a narrow street of lace-makers, icon sellers, and jewellers\u2019 shops, the modest exterior of Spyridon\u2019s shrine made its entrance easy to miss. There was certainly no fanfare for the miracle within as I stepped down into the perfumed candlelight. The Greek Orthodox Jesus possessed a strange allure; stern and penetrating, totally removed from the acoustic-guitar-and-custard-creams Sundays I spent in church at home. It\u2019s heretical to say it, but the shrine had magic. <a href=\"http:\/\/deadmaidens.com\/2015\/11\/23\/beauty-secrets-of-the-martyrs\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on DeadMaidens.com today, talking about Beauty Secrets of The Martyrs and the first time I met an incorrupt saint. I was fifteen when I stood over the incorrupt body of Saint Spyridon. It was my first visit to Corfu, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=5991\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,10],"class_list":["post-5991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beauty-secrets-of-the-martyrs","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5993,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}