{"id":2148,"date":"2012-02-06T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T18:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.russbishop.com\/blog\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2015-11-06T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T19:06:29","slug":"notre-dame-the-lady-of-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/notre-dame-the-lady-of-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame &#8211; The Lady of Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/russbishop.photoshelter.com\/img-show\/I0000MZJfln3xIw0\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"940752da.tif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000MZJfln3xIw0\/s\/600\/397\/940752da.jpg\" alt=\"Notre Dame Cathedral and the Seine River, Paris, France (\u00c2\u00a9 Russ Bishop\/www.russbishop.com)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame de Paris\u00a0(French for &#8220;Our Lady of Paris&#8221;) is widely considered one of the finest examples of\u00a0Gothic architecture in France and\u00a0all of\u00a0Europe.\u00a0\u00a0The classic lines of this magnificent cathedral rise gracefully above the Seine River and are as recognizable as the Eiffel Tower, and in terms of visitation it is even more popular\u00a0than Paris&#8217; other icon.<\/p>\n<p>Situated\u00a0on the eastern half of the \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 in the fourth arrondissement of Paris it\u00a0is the\u00a0seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese, and\u00a0its\u00a0treasury houses a reliquary with the purported Crown of Thorns worn by Jesus Christ before his crucifixion.\u00a0And as the geographical center of\u00a0Paris, a marker by the main entrance\u00a0represents\u00a0&#8220;point zero&#8221; from which all distances in France are measured.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Russ Bishop\/All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notre Dame de Paris\u00a0(French for &#8220;Our Lady of Paris&#8221;) is widely considered one of the finest examples of\u00a0Gothic architecture in France and\u00a0all of\u00a0Europe.\u00a0\u00a0The classic lines of this magnificent cathedral rise gracefully above the Seine River and are as recognizable as the Eiffel Tower, and in terms of visitation it is even more popular\u00a0than Paris&#8217; other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/notre-dame-the-lady-of-paris\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Notre Dame &#8211; The Lady of Paris&#8221;<\/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":[61,20],"tags":[345,132,269,270,347,344,271,425,569,346,20],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-travel","tag-black-and-white","tag-church","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-gothic","tag-notre-dame","tag-paris","tag-photography","tag-russ-bishop","tag-seine-river","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}