{"id":49,"date":"2010-01-22T23:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T23:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2013-03-05T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T21:16:07","slug":"avebury-standing-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/avebury-standing-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Avebury &#8211; standing stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are only a few stones left at Avebury now compared to its time of construction.\u00a0 After doing a little research I have found out the missing stones were either broken up by local Christian authorities in the 14th century as part of their effort to remove vestiges of pagan religious practices, or they were removed and broken up to use in the construction of houses and the cleared area used for crops. Where the stones once stood there are now markers to show where they were positioned. It is rather sad so many were removed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40\" alt=\"Avebury09HDR8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Avebury09HDR8.jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Avebury09HDR8.jpg 482w, http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Avebury09HDR8-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Avebury09HDR8-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are only a few stones left at Avebury now compared to its time of construction.\u00a0 After doing a little research I have found out the missing stones were either broken up by local Christian authorities in the 14th century &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/avebury-standing-stone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}