{"id":11536,"date":"2015-11-09T00:28:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T00:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11536"},"modified":"2015-11-09T00:28:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T00:28:16","slug":"how-about-those-pyramids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11536","title":{"rendered":"How about those Pyramids?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Pyramids-Giza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11537\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Pyramids-Giza-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"The-Pyramids-Giza\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Pyramids-Giza-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Pyramids-Giza-1024x593.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Pyramids-Giza.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the media and a number of political pundits obsess over whether Dr. Ben Carson really got a scholarship offer to West Point, I think it&#8217;s good to turn our attention to the here and now.<\/p>\n<p>What was it he said the other day about the Great Pyramids? That they were built to, um, <em>hold grain? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that the Pyramids&#8217; reason for being there matters in the world of current geopolitical relationships. However, the remark seems to call into question the good doctor&#8217;s understanding of history.<\/p>\n<p>Think of this for just a moment.<\/p>\n<p>Carson is a leading contender for the Republican Party presidential nomination. Weren&#8217;t we all taught &#8212; Dr. Carson included &#8212; that the Great Pyramids were built as tombs for the pharaohs?<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s he saying here? Does he know something that centuries of archaeologists have missed? Haven&#8217;t they uncovered the embalmed remains of Egyptian royalty from those structures?<\/p>\n<p>You might not believe this, but I am pulling for Dr. Carson to get put this West Point story aside. I guess, though, it&#8217;s because I want the media to focus on the things he&#8217;s saying today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the media and a number of political pundits obsess over whether Dr. Ben Carson really got a scholarship offer to West Point, I think it&#8217;s good to turn our attention to the here and now. What was it he said the other day about the Great Pyramids? That they were built to, um, hold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11536\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How about those Pyramids?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[588,5589,5224],"class_list":["post-11536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-ben-carson","tag-great-pyramids","tag-west-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11538,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536\/revisions\/11538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}