{"id":9683,"date":"2022-02-21T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9683"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","slug":"saint-machars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9683","title":{"rendered":"SAINT MACHAR&#8217;S"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In front of our house, the daffodils are starting to pop up from the cold, winter ground. It won&#8217;t be long now!<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhBQAIFfjLwcBd2eHb_7LGwmfzf-yqM9n1Ze_fLKrZBFkgwpx_S5-52JH5AMYy3uNQSUNa1XXjgpLrQVK7FnwAJURZqWKhT7PGdeOttD_Wk47HLeX2dFVCpndOcNXM4X5Ed4YTJwVfNQz4oNiTz7bn8KqqXkOne2Dv-igM2VaV7LFaYuJFnV15fbtZU=w426-h640\" alt=\"\" width=\"863\" height=\"1294\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjKl4PtzvWf67qozpAnImqMIehe_jj_5yg2HoUpwgwu5AOu240KfPUvZ_L77DOh5WKyCwrKZyGoZh9sR4k6HhbOT5OYcPMvwbUFMzasKvbS67q9CjV1N5ymv06OBkS5PUPDjIbPw7Ij94b--uzUzL60tUP-Jsv7SVws5WCoX8XdW5dVDa5XkXJ42BuU=w480-h640\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1439\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This afternoon I plan to take a moment to lay on a couch and let the daffodils of St. Machar&#8217;s &#8220;flash upon my inward eye&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s the best way to overcome February pensiveness!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">____________________________<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* The current structure of St. Machar&#8217;s dates back to the 1300s, but Machar himself began worship services on this site in 580. A bit of gruesome historical trivia: When William Wallace was drawn and quartered in 1305, one of his left quarters was sent to Aberdeen and was encased in the walls of St. Machar&#8217;s.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In front of our house, the daffodils are starting to pop up from the cold, winter ground. It won&#8217;t be long now! This afternoon I plan to take a moment to lay on a couch and let the daffodils of St. Machar&#8217;s &#8220;flash upon my inward eye&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the best way to overcome February pensiveness! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9686,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions\/9686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}