{"id":254,"date":"2006-03-21T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2006-03-21T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T22:28:00","slug":"atop-mars-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/21\/atop-mars-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Atop Mars Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Athens_Mars_Hill,_tb031806296sr-770422.JPG\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Athens_Mars_Hill,_tb031806296sr-762688.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you knew that I was in Greece, you&#8217;d probably guess that the above photo recalls Paul&#8217;s speech to the philosophers at Mars Hill in Athens (for another photo of the hill itself, see my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bibleplaces.com\/2006\/03\/new-cd-new-testament-archaeology-in.html\">other blog<\/a>).  Those who come from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masters.edu\">best college in the world<\/a> are probably jealous to realize who I got to spend the week with.  In fact, though I saw numerous biblical sites and took about 3,000 photos, I&#8217;d say my favorite part of the week was getting to know these guys better.  Two are VPs, one is department chair and the other Dean of Students.  That makes me several notches below any of them.  But they were still nice to me.  Even more than nice.  Gracious, humble, and helpful.  There&#8217;s much that I would like to say about the trip, but time is too short.  I&#8217;ll try to do another post before I leave the country again (not until Thursday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you knew that I was in Greece, you&#8217;d probably guess that the above photo recalls Paul&#8217;s speech to the philosophers at Mars Hill in Athens (for another photo of the hill itself, see my other blog). Those who come from the best college in the world are probably jealous to realize who I got\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/21\/atop-mars-hill\/\">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":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}