{"id":1057,"date":"2017-01-20T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggweb.com\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2017-01-20T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:00:10","slug":"our-first-day-in-riga-cathedral-of-the-nativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"Our first day in Riga &#8211; Cathedral of the Nativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So we were in Riga for the Sabbath day and, as has happened every week we have been here, it was an unusual day. \u00a0First, because we traveled on two airplanes to get to Riga and second, because we did not attend our regular meetings. \u00a0To compensate for that we decided to visit the beautiful cathedral across from our hotel. \u00a0We had a beautiful view of it from our window so we went to see it close.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1055\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1055\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1055\" src=\"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/9-orthodox-cathedral-riga-latvia-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"This is a bird's eye view of the Cathedral I found on line.\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/9-orthodox-cathedral-riga-latvia-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/9-orthodox-cathedral-riga-latvia.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a bird&#8217;s eye view of the Cathedral I found on line.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1054\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1054\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1054\" src=\"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/8-orthodox-cathedral-riga-latvia-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"It seemed irreverent to to take pictures inside but I found a few on line that give you a flavor of the cathedral's beauty.  Inside the dome is a gorgeous painting of the Savior - wish I could find a good picture of that.  It is truly awe inspiring.\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/8-orthodox-cathedral-riga-latvia-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/8-orthodox-cathedral-riga-latvia-768x862.jpg 768w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/8-orthodox-cathedral-riga-latvia-913x1024.jpg 913w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It seemed irreverent to to take pictures inside but I found a few on line that give you a flavor of the cathedral&#8217;s beauty. Inside the dome is a gorgeous painting of the Savior &#8211; wish I could find a good picture of that. It is truly awe inspiring.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1053\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1053\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1053\" src=\"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/7-orthodox-cathedral-riga-latvia-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A closer view of the front of the cathedral inside.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/7-orthodox-cathedral-riga-latvia-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/7-orthodox-cathedral-riga-latvia-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/7-orthodox-cathedral-riga-latvia-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/7-orthodox-cathedral-riga-latvia.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A closer view of the front of the cathedral inside.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Watching the people inside (you can see one of the nuns at the center of the last picture) we felt their reverence and love of the Savior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was truly the next best thing to being in our Church meetings on the Sabbath day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we were in Riga for the Sabbath day and, as has happened every week we have been here, it was an unusual day. \u00a0First, because we traveled on two airplanes to get to Riga and second, because we did not attend our regular meetings. \u00a0To compensate for that we decided to visit the beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-intro","category-our-mission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}