{"id":13211,"date":"2018-03-12T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=13211"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:09:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:09:27","slug":"spiritual-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=13211","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13214\" \/>I just read the most beautiful book, \u201cSpiritual Places\u201d by Sarah Baxter. Baxter is a travel journalist that has compiled an impressive list of spiritual places to visit. Some are seen as spiritual by their very nature, and other locations are spiritual because of the places of worship built there. 25 places are discussed, ranging from Easter Island to Wittenberg Castle Church. Baxter discusses the location\u2019s history, interesting facts about, suggestions for when visiting and more!<\/p>\n<p>This alone would make \u201cSpiritual Places\u201d a great read, but instead of stock photos for these locations someone (author, publisher, not sure who) decided to have illustrations by Harry and Zanna Goldhawk used in their place. The art is wonderful. It takes an interesting, but potentially stale, book and transports it to another level. Suddenly it feels like you\u2019re reading a whimsical storybook or fairy tale, except the stories are true!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13215\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/image003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"288\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13215\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camino de Santiago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The writing, the art, and the hardcover format makes \u201cSpiritual Places\u201d an excellent gift idea for just about anyone, including yourself.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quartoknows.com\/books\/9781781317426\/Inspired-Travellers-Guide-Spiritual-Places.html?direct=1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful book. Take a look. (Ack! I rhymed!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,26,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}