{"id":437,"date":"2006-12-05T15:28:05","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/12\/05\/dumb-americans-482\/"},"modified":"2006-12-05T15:28:05","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T13:28:05","slug":"dumb-americans-482","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/dumb-americans-482\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumb Americans #482"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago I chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masters.edu\/\">The Master&#8217;s College<\/a> over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/\">UC Berkeley<\/a>.&nbsp; Clearly the latter is a smarter school, right?&nbsp; Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/trivalleyherald\/localnews\/ci_4768112\">today&#8217;s news<\/a> suggests otherwise.&nbsp; UC Berkeley has decided to ban students from participating in a summer excavation in Israel or otherwise receiving credit from courses taken in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>A professor at Hebrew University sees through the folly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Israeli archaeologist Ilan Sharon, who has coordinated the Tel Dor excavation, said he would rate the danger of Middle East violence below that of Bay Area earthquakes, shootings, fraternity parties and extreme sports. Drunken escapades by graduate students are more worrisome than Hezbollah rockets.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No kidding.&nbsp; In many years of living in Israel, I&#8217;ve never seen any violence.&nbsp; In the few adult years of my life that I&#8217;ve lived in the U.S., I&#8217;ve experienced more.&nbsp; I thank God for the wise leaders of The Master&#8217;s College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago I chose The Master&#8217;s College over UC Berkeley.&nbsp; Clearly the latter is a smarter school, right?&nbsp; Well, today&#8217;s news suggests otherwise.&nbsp; UC Berkeley has decided to ban students from participating in a summer excavation in Israel or otherwise receiving credit from courses taken in Israel. A professor at Hebrew University sees through\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/dumb-americans-482\/\">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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}