{"id":17704,"date":"2017-07-31T01:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T05:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=17704"},"modified":"2017-07-06T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T00:26:07","slug":"stone-cold-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2017\/07\/31\/stone-cold-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Cold Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/2017-05-23-10.07.20.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17705\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/2017-05-23-10.07.20-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"2017-05-23 10.07.20\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17705\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you live in Kentucky like me, you\u2019ve seen a lot of this. Stonewalls stacked up perfectly, with no mortar. All these stone walls in Kentucky we owe to the Irish migration in the middle of the 19th century due to the potato famine. They brought their stone masons, their whiskey (aka bourbon), their Catholic priests, their jockeys, and their horses. I have just described not only the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, I\u2019ve describe a good deal of what characterizes Ireland. <\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t just walls done that way. Here behold the shepherd\u2019s cottage in the field where he has to watch sheep. Why did he need it?  Umm\u2026 did I mention rain, and wind in Ireland. <a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc-e1499386189147.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17706\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/files\/2017\/07\/sc-e1499386189147-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"sc\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17706\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc1-e1499386277927.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17707\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/files\/2017\/07\/sc1-e1499386277927-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"sc1\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17707\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc5-e1499386333108.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17708\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/files\/2017\/07\/sc5-e1499386333108-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"sc5\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17708\"><\/a>  And then there\u2019s the sheepfold, <a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc6.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17709\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/files\/2017\/07\/sc6-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"sc6\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17709\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc9.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17710\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc9-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"sc9\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17710\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheep don\u2019t need high doors, but if the shepherd was going in there, he had to be really short or bent over. <a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc10-e1499386525285.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17711\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc10-e1499386525285-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"sc10\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17711\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But where are the sheep  or lambs you say? They are around.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc11.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17712\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/files\/2017\/07\/sc11-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"sc11\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17712\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc12.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17713\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc12-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"sc12\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17713\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t you know it, my wife snagged one!!<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc14-e1499386722935.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17714\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc14-e1499386722935-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"sc14\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17714\"><\/a>  No honey, you can\u2019t keep it.  They will come and take you away in a paddy wagon\u2026.. oops, there\u2019s the paddy wagon!!<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc20.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17717\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/07\/sc20-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"sc20\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17717\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in Kentucky like me, you\u2019ve seen a lot of this. Stonewalls stacked up perfectly, with no mortar. All these stone walls in Kentucky we owe to the Irish migration in the middle of the 19th century due to the potato famine. 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