{"id":189768,"date":"2024-05-20T07:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/barry-kemp-egyptologist-who-dispelled-myths-about-the-christ-like-pharaoh-akhenaten-obituary"},"modified":"2024-05-20T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:23:11","slug":"barry-kemp-egyptologist-who-dispelled-myths-about-the-christ-like-pharaoh-akhenaten-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/barry-kemp-egyptologist-who-dispelled-myths-about-the-christ-like-pharaoh-akhenaten-obituary","title":{"rendered":"Barry Kemp, Egyptologist who dispelled myths about the \u2018Christ-like\u2019 pharaoh Akhenaten \u2014 obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/barry-kemp-egyptologist-who-dispelled-myths-about-the-christ-like-pharaoh-akhenaten-obituary2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Barry Kemp, who has died the day after his 84th birthday, was an eminent Egyptologist who directed the excavations at the site in Middle Egypt known as Amarna.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u2018The danger of being an absolute ruler is that no one dares tell you that what you have just decreed is not a good idea\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Barry Kemp, who has died the day after his 84th birthday, was an eminent Egyptologist who directed the excavations at the site in Middle Egypt known as Amarna. \u2018The danger of being an absolute ruler is that no one dares tell you that what you have just decreed is not a good idea\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}