{"id":190,"date":"2011-11-18T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/2011\/11\/18\/happy-thanksgiving-and-feasting\/"},"modified":"2011-11-18T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:04:00","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-and-feasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/2011\/11\/18\/happy-thanksgiving-and-feasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving (and feasting)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/concept.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536573dde970b01543705e9c6970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC03196\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a010536573dde970b01543705e9c6970c image-full\" src=\"http:\/\/concept.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536573dde970b01543705e9c6970c-800wi\" title=\"DSC03196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><em>Photo Credit:&#160; <\/em>Sara Orel<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last year for Thanksgiving break we featured <a href=\"http:\/\/concept.typepad.com\/trumanart\/2010\/11\/art-feasting-in-london-1.html\" target=\"_self\">a picture<\/a> of luxurious ceramic serving vessels;&#160; this year, again thinking of feasting and celebration, and again from Dr. Sara Orel, a picture from one of her study abroad trips to Cairo in Egypt.&#160; The picture, taken after a huge feast on a boat sailing along the Nile, shows a then-Truman student (now alumna) dancing with two of the trip&#039;s taxi drivers.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Dr. Orel&#039;s work in Egyptology and travels to Egypt, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trumanindex.com\/all-eyes-on-sara-orel-1.2702858\" target=\"_self\" title=\"this week&#039;s great feature\">this week&#039;s great feature<\/a> on her in Truman&#039;s award-winning student newspaper, The Index.<\/p>\n<p>For now, have a happy Thanksgiving and visit us again here at the Art blog after Thanksgiving break for news about Gallery openings, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/concept.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536573dde970b015393327179970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Saqqara food offerings from an OK mastaba\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a010536573dde970b015393327179970b image-full\" src=\"http:\/\/concept.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536573dde970b015393327179970b-800wi\" title=\"Saqqara food offerings from an OK mastaba\" \/><\/a><br \/>Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom mastaba (tomb) from Saqqara showing food offerings being brought to the tomb owner;&#160; the basket includes figs.&#160; <em>Photo Credit:&#160; Sara Orel<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit:&#160; Sara Orel Last year for Thanksgiving break we featured a picture of luxurious ceramic serving vessels;&#160; this year, again thinking of feasting and celebration, and again from Dr. Sara Orel, a picture from one of her study abroad trips to Cairo in Egypt.&#160; The picture, taken after a huge feast on a boat&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/2011\/11\/18\/happy-thanksgiving-and-feasting\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Thanksgiving (and feasting)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8023,22008,22180,17023,17678,23284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-art-history","category-department","category-study-abroad","category-travel","category-website"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}