{"id":1146,"date":"2009-04-22T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2009-04-22T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T17:13:00","slug":"romae-dies-natalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Romae Dies Natalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eternallycool.net\/category\/birthday\/\">Happy birthday to Rome<\/a>. Lots of great photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday to Rome. 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A great four-day event, with the participation of delegations from fifteen European countries and a representation from the US, culminated in an intense and luminous common ritual on the sacred hill of the Palatine on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Europe\"","block_context":{"text":"Europe","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=europe"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3177-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3177-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3177-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3177-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3177-1.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3177-1.jpg?resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13719,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13719","url_meta":{"origin":1146,"position":1},"title":"The Small Gods of Editing","author":"Chas S. 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