{"id":1130,"date":"2010-09-01T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T23:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2010\/09\/01\/not-your-fathers-ibex\/"},"modified":"2010-09-01T18:48:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T23:48:27","slug":"not-your-fathers-ibex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/01\/not-your-fathers-ibex\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Your Father&#8217;s IBEX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When students arrived in Israel a few days ago, it was not wizened faces of experience that greeted them.&#160; Instead a youthful band marked by innocence welcomed the newcomers.&#160; Once upon a time, IBEX was largely defined by the presence of three stalwart teachers, one bearded, one tall, one kind.&#160; Nowadays the only face alumni will recognize is that of Becky, for the three (and their families) are all currently living in (gasp) the States.&#160; How the times change.&#160; For the scoop, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/unendingmercies.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/28\/who-are-these-people-and-what-have-they-done-with-ibex\/\">IBEX volunteer&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IBEXStaffmeetingAugust1996.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"IBEX Staff meeting, August 1996\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IBEX Staff meeting, August 1996\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IBEXStaffmeetingAugust1996_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Once upon a time\u2026 (1996)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When students arrived in Israel a few days ago, it was not wizened faces of experience that greeted them.&#160; Instead a youthful band marked by innocence welcomed the newcomers.&#160; Once upon a time, IBEX was largely defined by the presence of three stalwart teachers, one bearded, one tall, one kind.&#160; Nowadays the only face alumni\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/01\/not-your-fathers-ibex\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}