{"id":4832,"date":"2011-12-02T19:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T02:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2011-12-02T19:36:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T02:36:04","slug":"white-dove-of-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/white-dove-of-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"White Dove of the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_6939.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4833\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_6939.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_6939.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_6939-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other day I packed a picnic lunch and we traveled 15 minutes up the freeway to the Mission San Xavier del Bac, the White Dove of the Desert. When you drive along the freeway, it&#8217;s hard to miss this striking white building with stone carvings. Built in the 1700&#8217;s, it is still used today for Mass. It&#8217;s incredibly ornate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mission_San_Xavier_del_Bac\">inside<\/a>. Mark liked all the gold. I liked the history, art, and architecture. What&#8217;s the oldest structure you have visited in the United States? This is the oldest one for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The other day I packed a picnic lunch and we traveled 15 minutes up the freeway to the Mission San Xavier del Bac, the White Dove of the Desert. When you drive along the freeway, it&#8217;s hard to miss this striking white building with stone carvings. Built in the 1700&#8217;s, it is still used &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/white-dove-of-the-desert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White Dove of the Desert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}