{"id":18881,"date":"2016-08-09T13:33:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T13:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=18881"},"modified":"2016-08-09T14:33:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:33:54","slug":"bearsofbaylor-i-was-on-an-archeological-dig-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2016\/08\/bearsofbaylor-i-was-on-an-archeological-dig-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"#BearsOfBaylor &#8212; &#8220;I was on an archeological dig in Israel&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I\u2019d like to teach at some point, and I\u2019m still looking at different jobs in museums. Earlier this summer, I was on an archeological dig in Israel &#8230; It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2016\/07\/baylor-prof-students-help-discover-ancient-biblical-mosaics-in-israel\/\">unearthing a 5th-century synagogue with late-Roman mosaics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was awesome. We wanted to get to the 5th-century synagogue, but on top of that was a medieval building that they\u2019re not really sure what it was, but we\u2019re trying to figure out what it is. And on top of that was a building from the 1950s. &#8230; I got to spend a good day with the conservator down in the pit actually uncovering the mosaics, which was really breathtaking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18882\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bob-mosaic-aug16.jpg\" alt=\"#BearsOfBaylor\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bob-mosaic-aug16.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bob-mosaic-aug16-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bob-mosaic-aug16-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bob-mosaic-aug16-1024x614.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[Every Baylor Bear has a story; #BearsOfBaylor brings those stories to you, one by one. These stories, these people&#8230; This is our Baylor.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I\u2019d like to teach at some point, and I\u2019m still looking at different jobs in museums. Earlier this summer, I was on an archeological dig in Israel &#8230; It was unearthing a 5th-century synagogue with late-Roman mosaics. &#8220;It was awesome. We wanted to get to the 5th-century synagogue, but on top of that was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bearsofbaylor","category-research","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}