{"id":4164,"date":"2008-11-28T21:27:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T01:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2012-09-11T01:16:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T05:16:18","slug":"after-the-rush-at-the-king-tut-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/4164\/after-the-rush-at-the-king-tut-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Rush at the King Tut Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/2008-11-28-tutaftertherush900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/2008-11-28-tutaftertherush900.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2008-11-28-tutaftertherush900\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/2008-11-28-tutaftertherush900.jpg 900w, https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/2008-11-28-tutaftertherush900-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/2008-11-28-tutaftertherush900-785x528.jpg 785w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>[clear]<\/p>\n<p>As we were leaving, we were told by a harried, exhausted, but friendly worker that there had been 6000 visitors in 3 hours.  I wasn&#8217;t surprised to hear it.  What did surprise me is we&#8217;d purchased tickets a couple of months ago because I had the impression sell-out crowds were being anticipated and that it was first come, first served as they didn&#8217;t want to overextend, and we&#8217;d wanted to make sure we&#8217;d be able to get in the day after Thanksgiving when Marty&#8217;s mother was visiting.  So, we weren&#8217;t expecting quite the crush we found ourselves in.  The flow was such that we felt compelled to hurry through and not examine as closely as we would have liked, and it seemed most around us felt the same pressure.  Which was a shame because the exhibit was lovely and begged more time to drink it all in.  Consequently, we&#8217;ll spend a good period of time examining the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingtut.org\/plan_your_visit\/group_information?location=atlanta\">study guides made available by the Carlos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/3828804550\/\" title=\"2008 nov 28 tut by idyllopus, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3535\/3828804550_fc90eb8eba_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"2008 nov 28 tut\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>H.o.p. hamming it up outside the King Tut Exhibit<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[clear] As we were leaving, we were told by a harried, exhausted, but friendly worker that there had been 6000 visitors in 3 hours. I wasn&#8217;t surprised to hear it. What did surprise me is we&#8217;d purchased tickets a couple of months ago because I had the impression sell-out crowds were being anticipated and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-4164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-the-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}