{"id":63840,"date":"2020-01-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=63840"},"modified":"2020-01-11T10:30:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T17:30:35","slug":"do-icons-get-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/11\/do-icons-get-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Do icons get cold?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;ve visited my parish or other Eastern parishes, you might have noticed that some icons have a scarf around them: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rushniki-Icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rushniki-Icon.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rushniki-Icon-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rushniki-Icon-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like many other people, you might have wondered &#8220;What&#8217;s that all about then?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scarfs are not around these icons because they&#8217;re a bit chilly&#8230; These pieces of fabric are called &#8220;Rushniki&#8221; and are traditional embroidery in Eastern Europe. They are put over family portraits\/pictures and icons at home. Items of emotional value are decorated this way and so it is rather natural for Saint icons to be decorated in the same way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"995\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Shawl.jpg?fit=708%2C1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Shawl.jpg 995w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Shawl-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Shawl-708x1024.jpg 708w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Shawl-768x1111.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 995px) 100vw, 995px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, not all scarfs are made equal&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_8086.jpg?fit=860%2C645\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_8086.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_8086-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_8086-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_8086-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_8086-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve visited my parish or other Eastern parishes, you might have noticed that some icons have a scarf around them: Like many other people, you might have wondered &#8220;What&#8217;s that all about then?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2969,2359,5557,5556,5355],"class_list":["post-63840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","tag-featured","tag-icon","tag-rushniki","tag-scarf","tag-shawl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Rushniki-Icon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63840"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74769,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63840\/revisions\/74769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}