{"id":23697,"date":"2016-08-30T13:53:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T13:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.com\/?p=23697"},"modified":"2016-09-15T17:42:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:42:35","slug":"postcards-1-the-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/postcards-1-the-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards #1: The Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eye-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"eye\" width=\"607\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eye.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eye-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eye-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/eye-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <em>mati,<\/em> the eye: This is a very common symbol in Greece and throughout the Middle-East. In Greece, at baptisms, a <em>\u2018mati\u2019<\/em> is pinned on to the baby\u2019s clothing (and every guest is given one to wear). This protects the child from evil. Most people in Greece have an eye hanging in their house to protect the house and the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The mati, the eye: This is a very common symbol in Greece and throughout the Middle-East. In Greece, at baptisms, a \u2018mati\u2019 is pinned on to the baby\u2019s clothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[429,446],"tags":[454,457],"class_list":["post-23697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartes-postales","category-news","tag-cartes-postales","tag-postcards","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}