{"id":341,"date":"2006-05-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/05\/more-on-yesterdays-house-bless.html"},"modified":"2006-05-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T12:00:00","slug":"more-on-yesterdays-house-bless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/05\/more-on-yesterdays-house-bless.html","title":{"rendered":"More on Yesterday&#8217;s House Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>The gorgeous blessing I published yesterday turns out to be <a href=\"http:\/\/islandireland.com\/Pages\/folk\/sets\/bless.html\" target=\"_new\">Irish<\/a>. That&#8217;s not too surprising, is it? And in response to one reader&#8217;s question, a lintel is a horizontal structural beam that spans any architectural opening, usually a door. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takeourword.com\/images\/lintel.jpg\" target=\"_new\">Here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadorne-art.com\/images\/photos-C%E9ret\/Linteau--Lintel--RueDuPetitPariss650.jpg\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a> are some nice old examples. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/rooftree\" target=\"_new\">rooftree<\/a> is not a pretty tree that hangs over your roof, it&#8217;s a beam to which other roof beams attach. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.danishchurch.vancouver.bc.ca\/history\/Rejsegilde1937.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.danishchurch.vancouver.bc.ca\/history\/build1.html&amp;h=317&amp;w=213&amp;sz=14&amp;tbnid=8U5PEpLj8Vne5M:&amp;tbnh=113&amp;tbnw=75&amp;hl=en&amp;start=9&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Drooftree%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a> and scroll down to see an old photograph of a church&#8217;s rooftree being raised. Lovely.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gorgeous blessing I published yesterday turns out to be Irish. That&#8217;s not too surprising, is it? And in response to one reader&#8217;s question, a lintel is a horizontal structural beam that spans any architectural opening, usually a door. Here and here are some nice old examples. 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