{"id":715,"date":"2009-01-02T03:20:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=715"},"modified":"2009-01-02T03:20:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:20:27","slug":"the-poetic-and-the-labyrinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/the-poetic-and-the-labyrinth\/","title":{"rendered":"The poetic and the labyrinth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_716\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-716\" class=\"size-full wp-image-716\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/the-labyrinth.jpg\" alt=\"pattern language and nature\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">pattern language and nature<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap-m.co.uk\/news.php\"><span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">www.ap-m.co.uk\/news.php<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a particularly attractive spiritual quality about water and its many moods from calm to stormy. As such, it is the perfect location for a ephemeral labyrinth&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">This labyrinth appears to be modelled on the seven ringed\u00a0Scandinavian &#8216;trogaburg&#8217; labyrinth, usually constructed by placing stones. It is said that these labyrinyths were almost always constructed close to the coast line. It is supposed that they were used by fisherman to trap &#8216;malevolent&#8217; spirits within the labyrinth before setting out to sea!<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">During medieval times it is believed\u00a0the labyrinth was adopted by Christianity as a spiritual device for meditation and prayer. One of the most famous unicursal or one way\u00a0labyrinths is located at Chartes cathedral. [http:\/\/www.sacred-destinations.com\/france\/chartres-cathedral.htm]<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">For more labyrinths and mazes;<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webecoist.com\/2008\/11\/25\/amazing-creative-hedge-mazes-and-labyrinths\/\">http:\/\/webecoist.com\/2008\/11\/25\/amazing-creative-hedge-mazes-and-labyrinths\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.ap-m.co.uk\/news.php There is a particularly attractive spiritual quality about water and its many moods from calm to stormy. As such, it is the perfect location for a ephemeral labyrinth&#8230;. This labyrinth appears to be modelled on the seven ringed\u00a0Scandinavian &#8216;trogaburg&#8217; labyrinth, usually constructed by placing stones. It is said that these labyrinyths were almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}