{"id":780,"date":"2016-12-24T02:54:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T02:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/?p=780"},"modified":"2016-12-24T02:54:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T02:54:33","slug":"truman-students-in-2016-middle-east-study-abroad-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/2016\/12\/24\/truman-students-in-2016-middle-east-study-abroad-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Truman students in 2016 Middle East study abroad experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-781\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/files\/2016\/12\/DSC_0883-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Middle East study abroad experience photo\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/files\/2016\/12\/DSC_0883-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/files\/2016\/12\/DSC_0883-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/files\/2016\/12\/DSC_0883-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pictured\u00a0 above are the participants in last summer\u2019s 2016 Middle East Study Abroad course.\u00a0 On the left side from left to right they are: Brody Aubry, Christian Flanery, Claire Vasilis, Emily Otto, Elisabeth Blotevogel, and Melanie Dippold.\u00a0 On the right side are Mary Kochanski, Dr. M. Appold (faculty), Timothy Richard, and Alex Moellering.\u00a0 Located at the entrance to the Bethsaida archaeological site, where the group spent two weeks working, is the entry marker listing participating colleges and universities that contribute to and support the work.\u00a0 On the fifth line from the bottom you will find listed Truman State University as one of the supporting institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in last summer\u2019s course spent a week in Egypt visiting historic Alexandria, Cairo, the Giza pyramids and sphinx, the Egyptian Museum, Khan El Kahlili Bazaar, Coptic Cairo, and a day in Luxor with visits to the Karnak Temple and the burial sites in on the West Bank.\u00a0 A week in Old Jerusalem was followed by another four days in the Palestinian West Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pictured\u00a0 above are the participants in last summer\u2019s 2016 Middle East Study Abroad course.\u00a0 On the left side from left to right they are: Brody Aubry, Christian Flanery, Claire Vasilis, Emily Otto, Elisabeth Blotevogel, and Melanie Dippold.\u00a0 On the right side are Mary Kochanski, Dr. M. Appold (faculty), Timothy Richard, and Alex Moellering.\u00a0 Located [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}