{"id":176488,"date":"2020-06-04T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/04\/the-power-of-egyptology\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T03:51:00","slug":"the-power-of-egyptology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/04\/the-power-of-egyptology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Egyptology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find this Twitter thread by an Egyptologist on how to pull down an obelisk to be very important, particularly in the case, as she notes, where the &#8220;Obelisk might be masquerading as a racist monument.<\/p>\n<p>This is beautiful, man.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/embed\/1267271817439346689.html\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find this Twitter thread by an Egyptologist on how to pull down an obelisk to be very important, particularly in the case, as she notes, where the &#8220;Obelisk might be masquerading as a racist monument. This is beautiful, man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,464,389,367,398,390],"class_list":["post-176488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-good-writing","tag-history","tag-internet","tag-racism","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}