{"id":126,"date":"2005-09-19T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2005-09-19T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T23:40:00","slug":"take-photo-now-find-story-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/19\/take-photo-now-find-story-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Photo Now, Find Story Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I was walking through the Muslim Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem when I saw the flag of the Israel Antiquities Authority waving from a rooftop. I thought it odd and so snapped a couple of pictures. I guessed that one of the ultra-religious\/nationalistic groups owned some property there and was having an excavation done before renovations and construction. But I knew nothing else and didn&#8217;t have time to investigate. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/pages\/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=625621\">Haaretz<\/a> has a story about it.  In short, they excavated about 40 feet (12 m) down and 65 feet (20 m) across, including underneath some people&#8217;s houses.  Those people aren&#8217;t too thrilled with it.  Will they find anything of interest?  My guess is that they won&#8217;t, because the earlier material is way below the surface, especially in this area which is in the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Archaeological%20excavation%20in%20Muslim%20Quarter,%20tb090705015wr-735069.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Archaeological%20excavation%20in%20Muslim%20Quarter,%20tb090705015wr-733903.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the photo you can see the blue flag of the Antiquities Authority and the tarp which keeps the sun off of the workers.  The street below is el-Wad (the Valley) Street, just north of the Western Wall prayer plaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I was walking through the Muslim Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem when I saw the flag of the Israel Antiquities Authority waving from a rooftop. I thought it odd and so snapped a couple of pictures. I guessed that one of the ultra-religious\/nationalistic groups owned some property there\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/19\/take-photo-now-find-story-later\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","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=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}