{"id":6680,"date":"2017-02-19T22:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?page_id=6680"},"modified":"2023-09-15T15:33:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:33:13","slug":"st-machar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?page_id=6680","title":{"rendered":"St Machar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/St-Machar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6665 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/St-Machar-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>St Machar Cathedral is very close to our school. According to legend, St Machar founded a site of worship in Old Aberdeen in about 580. He\u00a0is said to have been a companion of\u00a0St Columba\u00a0on his journey to\u00a0Iona. A fourteenth-century legend tells how God (or St Columba) told Machar to establish a church where a river bends into the shape of a bishop&#8217;s\u00a0crosier\u00a0before flowing into the sea. The\u00a0River Don\u00a0bends in this way just below where the Cathedral now stands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Machar Cathedral is very close to our school. According to legend, St Machar founded a site of worship in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6665,"parent":6660,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6680","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16132,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6680\/revisions\/16132"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}