{"id":13546,"date":"2011-04-06T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T07:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=13546"},"modified":"2011-04-12T00:28:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T07:28:34","slug":"alto-vista-chapel-aruba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13546","title":{"rendered":"Alto Vista Chapel, Aruba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest church on Aruba is the Roman Catholic Chapel of Alto Vista, originally built in 1750 and rebuilt in 1953 .\u00a0 The chapel is well maintained, inside and out, and is popular with visitors .\u00a0 Outside the chapel a species of <em>Lantana<\/em> thrives among the Prickly Pear Cactus (<em>Opuntia wentiana<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alto-Vista-Chapel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13547\" title=\"Alto Vista Chapel, Exterior\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alto-Vista-Chapel.jpg\" alt=\"Alto Vista Chapel, Exterior\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alto-Vista-Chapel.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alto-Vista-Chapel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alto-Vista-Chapel-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Alto Vista Chapel, Exterior<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Alto Vista Chapel, Exterior (Aruba, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 29 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alto-Vista-Chapel-Interior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13548\" title=\"Alto Vista Chapel, Interior\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alto-Vista-Chapel-Interior.jpg\" alt=\"Alto Vista Chapel, Interior\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alto-Vista-Chapel-Interior.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alto-Vista-Chapel-Interior-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alto-Vista-Chapel-Interior-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Alto Vista Chapel, Interior<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Alto Vista Chapel, Interior (Aruba, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 29 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Lantana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13549\" title=\"Lantana sp.\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Lantana.jpg\" alt=\"Lantana sp.\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Lantana.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Lantana-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Lantana-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lantana<\/em> sp.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 <em>Lantana<\/em> sp. (Aruba, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 29 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Opuntia-wentiana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13550\" title=\"Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia wentiana)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Opuntia-wentiana.jpg\" alt=\"Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia wentiana)\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Opuntia-wentiana.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Opuntia-wentiana-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Opuntia-wentiana-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Prickly Pear Cactus (<em>Opuntia wentiana<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Prickly Pear Cactus (<em>Opuntia wentiana<\/em>) (Aruba, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 29 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest church on Aruba is the Roman Catholic Chapel of Alto Vista, originally built in 1750 and rebuilt in 1953 .\u00a0 The chapel is well maintained, inside and out, and is popular with visitors .\u00a0 Outside the chapel a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13546\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-13546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-caribbean-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3wu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13552,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546\/revisions\/13552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}