{"id":92873,"date":"2012-07-17T02:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T06:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/92873\/spontaneously-cured-not-king-tut-exhibit\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T02:56:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T06:56:17","slug":"spontaneously-cured-not-king-tut-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/92873\/spontaneously-cured-not-king-tut-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Spontaneously CURED by the not-King-Tut Exhibit!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My sole sibling, my older sister Deidre, is in town this week with her husband and my nephews, doing the summer vacation thing here in the great Northwest with friends of theirs.\u00a0 I had sort of vaguely heard that King Tut was in town, but had family not come to do the tourist thing, I probably wouldn\u2019t have gone.\u00a0 Yeah. At rock concert ticket prices, it\u2019s not something I would have done otherwise.<\/font><\/p>\n

Thanks, Sis, for buying my ticket!\u00a0 The King Tut exhibit was awesome!!!\u00a0 Seeing up close and personal gigantic 3000 year old statues from cradle of civilization, and a whole BUNCH of them, THAT was awesome.\u00a0 Once in a lifetime kind of thing since I will probably never in my life get to Egypt or Mesopotamia or Greece.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"\"That said, there was one thing missing from the King Tut exhibit touring the USA right now, which is being billed as the LAST time EVER King Tut will come to North America, and that is, King Tut himself.\u00a0 See, this tour, unlike the famous one in the 1970\u2019s that created a bit of a frenzy here in the USA and drew millions, does NOT actually include the remains of King Tut.\u00a0 In fact, they didn\u2019t even bring one of the sarcophagi, burial caskets nor the infamous burial mask, seen in the picture here.<\/p>\n

The exhibit was still awesome.\u00a0 But you see, this awesomeness just built\u00a0 tension that lead to an anti-climactic end. Each amazing thing to look at created anticipation for that moment, like Carter back in 1922, when you would arrive in the burial chamber and gaze upon King Tut.\u00a0 Instead, after you see many of the impressive artifacts buried with the Boy King, you end up.. In the gift shop.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What the heck?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

So, as I\u2019m sure hundreds of asked before, I asked the security guard at the end of the tour, so, what the heck? No King Tut?\u00a0 No funeral mask?<\/p>\n

Oh no. The mask was damaged last time it came to the USA, so its staying in Egypt. <\/em><\/p>\n

Hrrumph.\u00a0 I suppose it wouldn\u2019t help sell the thing, but they should have called it \u201cAwesome Egyptian relics! Many of Which Come From King Tut\u2019s Tomb!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Now, before entering the exhibit, we were told \u201cNO VIDEO RECORDING\u201d, so instead of my usual video, I have instead, a SLIDESHOW of pictures I took on the tour\u2026 Enjoy!
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I left a bit of myself behind at this exhibit.\u00a0 Literally. That nasty, huge mole on the side of my head that I blogged about, fearing it was cancer, simply fell off<\/strong>. No blood. No bump left behind. It just fell off. Don’t know where it happened, don’t know where that mole is now, but it’s definitely near all these ancient Egyptian relics. I wonder if it had anything with all the 3000 year old religious artifacts I was surrounded by…<\/font><\/p>\n

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My sole sibling, my older sister Deidre, is in town this week with her husband and my nephews, doing the summer vacation thing here in the great Northwest with friends of theirs.\u00a0 I had sort of vaguely heard that King Tut was in town, but had family not come to do the tourist thing, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,28,25],"tags":[246,1624,81],"class_list":["post-92873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-health","category-world","tag-art-2","tag-egypt","tag-joko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}