{"id":639870,"date":"2012-08-09T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=440dcd4255930589169dfd84bde8aaa1"},"modified":"2012-08-09T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T13:28:57","slug":"closing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/639870","title":{"rendered":"Closing down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-exNCCCo512k\/UCO6JVxxnjI\/AAAAAAAALwk\/OocBKGlElBc\/s1600\/240.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-exNCCCo512k\/UCO6JVxxnjI\/AAAAAAAALwk\/OocBKGlElBc\/s320\/240.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After eight and a half years I rather suspect that I am closing down this blog.&nbsp; I haven&#8217;t found the time to update it in nearly a month.&nbsp; It was always time-consuming, but recently it has become exceedingly difficult to find the time to keep it going as I would like.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t delete it &#8211; the archive will still be there. I will also continue to moderate comments.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Instead, I will start posting news items to my Twitter account, which will take much less time and can be done on a rather more <i>ad hoc<\/i> basis.&nbsp; @egyptologynews, for anyone interested.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>If you still wish for a blog-based news service there are  lots of them out there.&nbsp; When I started Egyptology News it was the only  such service, but lots of other people are now doing a similar job.&nbsp;  Just do a Google search and see which one you like the best.&nbsp; EEF produce a weekly round-up, too.<\/p>\n<p>My eternal thanks and a huge hug to Kat Newkirk, who has been copying me on news emails for years and years.&nbsp; Kat, please keep me on your distribution list &#8211; I will be using it for Twitter instead. <\/p>\n<p>My sincere thanks to all of you who have followed the blog over the years too &#8211; it has been fun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Best<br \/>Andie <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After eight and a half years I rather suspect that I am closing down this blog.&nbsp; I haven&#8217;t found the time to update it in nearly a month.&nbsp; It was always time-consuming, but recently it has become exceedingly difficult to find the time to keep it going as I would like.&nbsp; I won&#8217;t delete it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}