{"id":3844,"date":"2008-06-17T05:12:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T13:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willdoherty.org\/wordpress\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2008-06-17T05:12:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T13:12:23","slug":"lunch-with-andrew-oxford-and-the-ashmolean-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=3844","title":{"rendered":"Lunch With Andrew, Oxford and the Ashmolean Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> Written June 21, 2008, on train from Manchester, England, to Holyhead, Wales, for ferry to Dublin, Ireland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After a good veg breakfast the next morning, I took two buses to Salisbury, then continued on to Oxford. I walked from the train station to the Ashmolean Museum, where I met Andrew Hodges for a pleasant lunch. We hadn&#8217;t seen each other for six or seven years since he stopped at Mills College as part of his lecture tour for his book on Alan Turing.<\/p>\n<p>The Ashmolean has a wonderful collection of 25th dynasty materials, which I photographed along with a few contemporary Assyrian items.<\/p>\n<p>On Andrew&#8217;s advice, I took a walk through town to see the old campus halls, the church, and other beautiful buildings. Then, back to the station and on to Manchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written June 21, 2008, on train from Manchester, England, to Holyhead, Wales, for ferry to Dublin, Ireland After a good veg breakfast the next morning, I took two buses to Salisbury, then continued on to Oxford. I walked from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=3844\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,61,66,83,109,148,178,250,216,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-egypt","category-england","category-friendship","category-history","category-museum","category-queer","category-stardusts-research","category-sudan","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}