{"id":139,"date":"2026-04-10T11:03:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/?p=139"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:37:12","slug":"votive-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/04\/10\/votive-candles\/","title":{"rendered":"Votive Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5214.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5214-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5214-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5214-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5214-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5214-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5214-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5214.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was raised a Catholic and am familiar with the votive candle idea. As we have toured Europe we have seen dozens of the displays. But there has been a disturbing, to me, trend to electrify them. It\u2019s not the same at all and I don\u2019t like them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I was happy to see none of this nonsense at this Saint Jean church. Plus they offer supersized candles, only 2\u20ac, 1\u20ac for the little ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was raised a Catholic and am familiar with the votive candle idea. As we have toured Europe we have seen dozens of the displays. But there has been a disturbing, to me, trend to electrify them. It\u2019s not the same at all and I don\u2019t like them. So I was happy to see none &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/04\/10\/votive-candles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Votive Candles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}