{"id":246,"date":"2008-10-23T08:49:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T12:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2008-10-24T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T14:26:21","slug":"old-clermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Old Clermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/st-pauls.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-247\" title=\"st-pauls\" src=\"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/st-pauls-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/st-pauls-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/st-pauls.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><strong> 23. 10. 08 Thursday<\/strong>. Today I went on a guided tour of Clermont under the auspices of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qualite-herault.fr\/en\/\">association<\/a> celebrating local history and Languedoc culture. It began with a reception in the Espace des Penitents with coffee and pastries, during which there was an address by the mayor. Then the historian took over and, after a general overview, described the history of the Espace des Penitents. Construction began on the priory in 1319 and since then it has had numerous uses, from a meeting place for revolutionaries, an orphanage, a gymnasium, a vegetable market to finally now an exhibition space. By this time we had finished our coffee so on we went to St Paul&#8217;s and then up through the old town to the chateau. All the while getting the official history but also a more local and more recent history from several members of the group who reminisced <em>en passant<\/em> about landmarks and events from their childhood. It was absolutely fascinating and, even though some of it was not that easy for me to understand, it was a very rewarding morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23. 10. 08 Thursday. Today I went on a guided tour of Clermont under the auspices of an association celebrating local history and Languedoc culture. It began with a reception in the Espace des Penitents with coffee and pastries, during which there was an address by the mayor. Then the historian took over and, after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petermaher.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}