{"id":25100,"date":"2014-07-04T07:50:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T11:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=25100"},"modified":"2014-07-04T07:50:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T11:50:42","slug":"around-sibiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/07\/around-sibiu.html","title":{"rendered":"Around Sibiu"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-20140704145029.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-20140704145029.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/07\/where-in-the-world-is-james-mcgrath-3.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\">one person guessed<\/a>, I am currently in Sibiu, Romania. The photo above is of what is thought to be the oldest house in the city, dating from the 15th century. While I like the local food here, I particularly appreciated the \u201cfried stuff maker\u201d with the religious name in the photo below, which has \u201cplacinte cu cartofi\u201d of the sort that I used to eat when I lived in Oradea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-201407041450291.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-201407041450291.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\">The photo below is from the Church of St. Ursula.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-201407041450292.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-201407041450292.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"> Behind me is someone playing a t\u00e1rogat\u00f3 on the main pedestrian street in the city center.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-201407041450293.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-201407041450293.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p> Some of the older houses have beautiful architecture.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-201407041450294.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-201407041450294.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p> And here's the place where young Pioneers were brought up in the Communist faith in a bygone era.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-201407041450295.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/wpid-Photo-201407041450295.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As at least one person guessed, I am currently in Sibiu, Romania. 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