{"id":1968,"date":"2012-11-09T18:48:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T00:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2012-11-09T18:48:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T00:48:13","slug":"first-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/first-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"First Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to stop now for the better part of two weeks, but I have finished writing the &#8220;meat&#8221; of my first chapter (actually &#8220;Chapter Five&#8221; in the finished work). I had hoped to finish adding intros and conclusions for each section along with an overall conclusion by today, but that did not happen. I also did not proofread and I have some reference checking to do. Nevertheless, I consider this progress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/chap1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"chap1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chap1\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/chap1_thumb.jpg\" width=\"328\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The allowed word range for the final product is 50,000-75,000 words. I&#8217;ve made a dent in that. The subject of this (certainly the longest) chapter is archaeological sites, and I&#8217;ve specifically been looking at what they tell us (or don&#8217;t tell us) about the Aramean oppression in the reign of Jehu. I consider 35 sites in what I think is more thorough and up-to-date than has been done before. It is important that I finish this dissertation quickly, before any more data is published. :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to stop now for the better part of two weeks, but I have finished writing the &#8220;meat&#8221; of my first chapter (actually &#8220;Chapter Five&#8221; in the finished work). I had hoped to finish adding intros and conclusions for each section along with an overall conclusion by today, but that did not happen. I\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/first-chapter\/\">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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","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=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}