{"id":11307,"date":"2019-10-04T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=11307"},"modified":"2019-11-11T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T15:54:13","slug":"david-walsh-appears-on-bbc-persia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/10\/04\/david-walsh-appears-on-bbc-persia\/","title":{"rendered":"David Walsh appears on BBC Persia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Persia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ff8u539ozk4\">recently interviewed David Walsh<\/a>, Lecturer in the Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies, at the Bloomberg Space to discuss the differences between the Roman Cult and the worship of the Persian Mithra, who looks very similar (and has a similar name), but is also very distinct from Mithras in how he his worshipped.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ff8u539ozk4\">recording of the interview<\/a> (David features at 11:30 approx) is available online.<\/p>\n<p>David also recently appeared at the Mithraeum for the Emerge Festival (pictured below &#8211; image by Caroline Lawrence) giving talks on the cult.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/files\/2019\/09\/Emerge-Festival-e1569855466657.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11308\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/files\/2019\/09\/Emerge-Festival-e1569855466657-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"David Walsh at Emerge Festival\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/files\/2019\/09\/Emerge-Festival-e1569855466657-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/files\/2019\/09\/Emerge-Festival-e1569855466657-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/files\/2019\/09\/Emerge-Festival-e1569855466657-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/files\/2019\/09\/Emerge-Festival-e1569855466657.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Persia recently interviewed David Walsh, Lecturer in the Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies, at the Bloomberg Space to discuss the differences between the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/10\/04\/david-walsh-appears-on-bbc-persia\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":11346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[18592,207015,206948,207017,25242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11307"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11592,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions\/11592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}