{"id":396,"date":"2005-03-29T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2005-03-29T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T23:08:00","slug":"396","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Holy Places Everywhere<\/strong><\/p>\n

The “Neokoroi” page lists primarily civic sites with strong Graeco-Roman religious elements that might effectively function as holy places<\/a>. Some examples:<\/p>\n

Woodside, Calfornia: The Pulgas Water Temple–beautiful Graeco-Roman style building open to the public, marking the place where the water from the Hetch Hatchey Reservoir in the mountains (which provides the Bay Area with fresh water) flows into the Crystal Springs Reservoir.<\/p>\n

Minneapolis: In the lobby of the Minneapolis City Hall, there’s a large classical style statue titled “Father of Waters”. Effectively, it’s a statue of the god of the Mississippi River.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holy Places Everywhere The “Neokoroi” page lists primarily civic sites with strong Graeco-Roman religious elements that might effectively function as holy places. Some examples: Woodside, Calfornia: The Pulgas Water Temple–beautiful Graeco-Roman style building open to the public, marking the place where the water from the Hetch Hatchey Reservoir in the mountains (which provides the Bay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-396","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":309,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=309","url_meta":{"origin":396,"position":0},"title":"Paint your statue Art historians\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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