{"id":3808,"date":"2008-04-04T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/04\/dig-it\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T09:13:00","slug":"dig-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/04\/dig-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Dig It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Those who subscribe to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bib-arch.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Biblical Archaeology Society\u2019s<\/a> e-mail updates will already be aware of the resource <a href=\"http:\/\/findadig.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Find a Dig<\/a>, which provides information about opportunities to volunteer and participate in archaeological digs in various parts of the world. 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