{"id":32683,"date":"2023-08-07T14:35:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T18:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32683"},"modified":"2023-08-09T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T17:08:04","slug":"in-the-grotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32683","title":{"rendered":"In The Grotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman, AL- home of the in-laws.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few pictures of a large collection of miniature Catholic folk art works done by a Benedictine monk in the first half of the 1900s. It's all made with donated materials like dishes and figurines and jewelry  , shells, bits of glass, tiles, cement - whatever he could get.<\/p>\n<p>There are many small scenes that duplicate churches or shrines from around the world , and then large sections dedicated to Rome and the Holy Land.<\/p>\n<p>Quite a sight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0843.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32680\" width=\"700\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0843.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0843-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0843-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0853.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32679\" width=\"700\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0853.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0853-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0853-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0857.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32681\" width=\"524\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0857.jpg 524w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0857-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0845.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32682\" width=\"524\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0845.jpg 524w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0845-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman, AL- home of the in-laws. Here are a few pictures of a large collection of miniature Catholic folk art works done by a Benedictine monk in the first half of the 1900s. It's all made with donated materials like dishes and figurines and jewelry , shells, bits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32683"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32693,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32683\/revisions\/32693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}