{"id":12307,"date":"2026-02-19T01:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/12307\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:09:07","slug":"marking-ash-wednesday-at-geneva-train-station-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/12307\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking Ash Wednesday at Geneva train station \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 ijEZZk image-metadata\">Ewa Duranodic of North Aurora receives a traditional blessing of a cross of ash on her forehead from Lee Kolodziej of St. Charles Episcopal Church at the Geneva train station on Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026. (Mark Black for Shaw Local News Network\/Mark Black \/ Shaw Local News Network)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/author\/mark-black\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Black for Shaw Local News Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark Black is a freelance photographer and contributor to Shaw Local<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/gallery\/2026\/02\/18\/photo-marking-ash-wednesday-at-geneva-train-station\/mailto:contact@shawmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Send an email to Mark Black\" class=\"linkHovers__LinkSVGHover-sc-1ad8end-2 default__MediaLinksStyled-sc-1m0o7mf-0 iZqbyw\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ewa Duranodic of North Aurora receives a traditional blessing of a cross of ash on her forehead from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9087,9086,65,898,9089,9088],"class_list":{"0":"post-12307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-batavia","9":"tag-faith","10":"tag-geneva","11":"tag-kane-county","12":"tag-north-aurora","13":"tag-st-charles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}