{"id":834,"date":"2026-04-22T17:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/?p=834"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:35:52","slug":"the-zia-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/04\/22\/the-zia-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zia Symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have the following patch on Charlie&#8217;s backpack &#8212; the pack we carry on the Camino with things we need for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5740.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5740-e1776878347258-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5740-e1776878347258-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5740-e1776878347258-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5740-e1776878347258-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5740-e1776878347258-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5740-e1776878347258-1200x1594.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5740-e1776878347258.jpg 1506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had it on my back pack the past few caminos. Over the years we&#8217;ve had a few people stop us who recognized the Zia symbol.  It happened again today. We were sitting in front of our albergue drinking coffee and a woman came up and said &#8220;I saw your Zia symbol&#8221;.  She then held out her arm to show us her tattoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5743-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5743-1-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5743-1-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5743-1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5743-1-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5743-1-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5743-1-1200x904.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5743-1.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\">She said she grew up in Santa Fe and her father still lives there.  She moved to France when she was 20 and has lived there ever since.  (She looked to be 40 to 45.)  She said she had met 3 people on the Camino this year who are from Albuquerque.  We haven&#8217;t met any (other) New Mexicans yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have the following patch on Charlie&#8217;s backpack &#8212; the pack we carry on the Camino with things we need for the day. I had it on my back pack the past few caminos. Over the years we&#8217;ve had a few people stop us who recognized the Zia symbol. It happened again today. We were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/04\/22\/the-zia-symbol\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Zia Symbol&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-834","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\/834","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}