{"id":2992,"date":"2025-02-03T18:52:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T01:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor.png"},"modified":"2025-02-03T18:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T01:52:50","slug":"luke-farritor","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/2025\/02\/03\/luke-farritor-from-ancient-scrolls-to-modern-governance\/luke-farritor\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Farritor"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-2992","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Farritor named co-winner of $700,000 prize for ID\u2019ing scroll passages.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/news.unl.edu\/article-2<\/p>\n<p>In late 2023, Nebraska\u2019s Luke Farritor became the first to free a Greek word from its prison: papyrus charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>That feat would earn Farritor worldwide acclaim and $40,000 from the organizers of the Vesuvius Challenge, a global effort to decode the writings of burnt scrolls recovered from a library in the Roman town of Herculaneum. For most, it would rank as the achievement of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>But the Husker undergrad and Lincoln native was far from finished. On Feb. 5, the Vesuvius Challenge named Farritor, Youssef Nader and Julian Schilliger the co-winners of its $700,000 Grand Prize for deciphering at least four passages of text, each 140-plus characters long, from digital scans of a seared scroll.<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/png","media_details":{"width":750,"height":422,"file":"2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor.png","filesize":232737,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Luke-Farritor-300x169.png","width":300,"height":169,"filesize":62298,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor-300x169.png"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Luke-Farritor-150x84.png","width":150,"height":84,"filesize":20671,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor-150x84.png"},"wptouch-new-thumbnail":{"file":"Luke-Farritor-144x144.png","width":144,"height":144,"filesize":27907,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor-144x144.png"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"Luke-Farritor-300x169.png","width":300,"height":169,"filesize":62298,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor-300x169.png"},"responsiveblogily-grid":{"file":"Luke-Farritor-350x230.png","width":350,"height":230,"filesize":86199,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor-350x230.png"},"responsiveblogily-small":{"file":"Luke-Farritor-300x180.png","width":300,"height":180,"filesize":64885,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor-300x180.png"},"full":{"file":"Luke-Farritor.png","width":750,"height":422,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor.png"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":2991,"source_url":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Luke-Farritor.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2992"}],"wp:attached-to":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"post","id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}