{"id":82,"date":"2017-09-24T19:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eee2017\/log\/?p=82"},"modified":"2017-09-24T19:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T19:35:09","slug":"the-bone-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eee2017\/log\/2017\/09\/24\/the-bone-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bone Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday<\/strong>, we continued to our destination: the Sedlec ossuary, or “bone church”, near Kutna Hora, about an hour east of Prague.\u00a0 It was fortunately not crowded.\u00a0 This changes, minute to minute, depending on the arrival of tour buses.\u00a0 The ossuary will hold about one tour bus.\u00a0 We’ve seen a lot of bones this trip, from the human bone\/glass construction in Venice, to the reindeer skulls in Kassel, to the Sedlec chapel here.\u00a0 The memento mori are piling up.\u00a0 I have been here before, with Klaus and his family in 2013, but Dave hasn’t, and one really ought to have World Heritage Site Parity in a relationship.\u00a0 Except, the bone church isn’t part of the Kutna Hora UNESCO properties.\u00a0 It’s too comprehensible.\u00a0 Two other large churches in town are Inscribed, and documented with absolutely opaque church architecture jargon.<\/em><\/p>\n

But what you do notice, as a lay person, is that the cathedrals of St. Barbara and especially of St. John the Baptist, are sunny and bright inside.\u00a0 I think this is because they aren’t so heavily ornamented with dark and history-laden stones.<\/em><\/p>\n

At night, we decided further to accept no small slips, and gave up going to Prague entirely.\u00a0 We stayed at a charming little hotel, U Ruze, where we had had lunch.\u00a0 This is how marketing should work: they neglected to charge 10 Czech kroner for the use of their bathroom, which led us to reward them by having lunch there, and as the sun grew low, we needed look no farther for a hotel. \u00a0The room was quite cute and comfortable.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday, we continued to our destination: the Sedlec ossuary, or “bone church”, near Kutna Hora, about an hour east of Prague.\u00a0 It was fortunately not crowded.\u00a0 This changes, minute to minute, depending on the arrival of tour buses.\u00a0 The ossuary will hold about one tour bus.\u00a0 We’ve seen a lot of bones this trip, from … Continue reading The Bone Church<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eee2017\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eee2017\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eee2017\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eee2017\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eee2017\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eee2017\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eee2017\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eee2017\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eee2017\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apresmidi.net\/eee2017\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}