{"id":3036,"date":"2016-12-09T18:46:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T18:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:31","slug":"i-didnt-expect-to-be-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2016\/12\/09\/i-didnt-expect-to-be-moved\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I understand now where that power comes from&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3043 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/12\/img_7274-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7274\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/12\/img_7274-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/12\/img_7274-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/12\/img_7274-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/12\/img_7274-335x503.jpg 335w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/12\/img_7274-1050x1575.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Associate Director of Communications Richard Paige recalls a recent immersion experience in Israel with Professor Bob Royalty&#8217;s class &#8220;Contested Texts, Contested Sites,&#8221; and finds slippery streets, saffron and halvah, moving celebrations, and that the sounds of children are the same everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t expect to be moved. It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;ve come back and want to go to church every Sunday, but I understand now where that power comes from, because I&#8217;ve been there,&#8221; says Paige. &#8220;There&#8217;s something bigger than me, and it&#8217;s not about me\u2014it&#8217;s about us. Especially in a place like Jerusalem.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Director of Communications Richard Paige recalls a recent immersion experience in Israel with Professor Bob Royalty&#8217;s class &#8220;Contested Texts, Contested Sites,&#8221; and finds slippery streets, saffron and halvah, moving celebrations, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":3039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-videos","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-audio"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/12\/western-wall-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}