{"id":283102,"date":"2026-05-03T15:09:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingramblog.wordpress.com\/2026\/05\/03\/a-1700-year-old-pagan-temple\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T15:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:09:29","slug":"a-1700-year-old-pagan-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2026\/05\/03\/a-1700-year-old-pagan-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"A 1,700-year-old pagan temple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PXL_20260418_111753238.MP_-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-285985\" style=\"width:900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The temple of Saint Michael the Archangel sits on a hill about 20 minutes outside the gates of the old city of Perugia in Italy, and was built sometime in the 5th century. It was originally a pagan temple, and at some point became a Christian church. It is open to the public and has a unique wooden circular dome, and inside there are alcoves distributed around the circular walls for christenings, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The temple of Saint Michael the Archangel sits on a hill about 20 minutes outside the gates of the old city of Perugia in Italy, and was built sometime in the 5th century. It was originally a pagan temple, and at some point became a Christian church. It is open to the public and has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2026\/05\/03\/a-1700-year-old-pagan-temple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A 1,700-year-old pagan temple&#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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}