{"id":35374,"date":"2019-03-17T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35374"},"modified":"2019-03-17T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T22:26:08","slug":"gertrude-of-nivelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/03\/gertrude-of-nivelles\/","title":{"rendered":"St Gertrude of Nivelles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/St-Gertrude-with-cat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35375 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/St-Gertrude-with-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>Today is the feast day of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gertrude_of_Nivelles\"><strong>St Gertrude of Nivelles<\/strong><\/a>, a 7th century Benedictine Abbess who lived in present day Belgium; she is not to be confused with another Gertrude who has the title of &#8220;the Great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>St Gertrude\u00a0is the patron saint of cats.<\/p>\n<p>Given that in the USA the Irish celebrate St Patrick with great fanfare, one forgets that some other saints exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the feast day of St Gertrude of Nivelles, a 7th century Benedictine Abbess who lived in present day Belgium; she is not to be confused with another Gertrude who has the title of &#8220;the Great.&#8221; St Gertrude\u00a0is the patron saint of cats. Given that in the USA the Irish celebrate St Patrick with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/03\/gertrude-of-nivelles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St Gertrude of Nivelles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1727,32277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35376,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35374\/revisions\/35376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}