{"id":1183,"date":"2009-07-29T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2009-07-29T04:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T04:42:00","slug":"greek-orthodox-cover-up-of-parthenon-defacing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"Greek Orthodox Cover-up of Parthenon Defacing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Richard Bartholomew: Orthodox clergy in Greece demanded &#8212; and got &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/barthsnotes.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/27\/scene-showing-orthodox-defacement-of-parthenon-cut-from-museum-film\/\">removal of a film segment in the Parthenon visitor center that showed their predecessors smashing Pagan statuary, etc., centuries ago.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/wildhunt.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/destroy-the-temple-make-a-museum.html\">Jason<\/a>) The museum backed down and is r<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hXX-cxF-fMkZKFCSdFXTHpoJM-1w\">estoring the original film<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Richard Bartholomew: Orthodox clergy in Greece demanded &#8212; and got &#8212; removal of a film segment in the Parthenon visitor center that showed their predecessors smashing Pagan statuary, etc., centuries ago. UPDATE: (Via Jason) The museum backed down and is restoring the original film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,24,33,5],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-christianity","tag-greece","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-j5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1046,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1046","url_meta":{"origin":1183,"position":0},"title":"Seeing the World with Greek Eyes","author":"Chas S. 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(I discussed her critique here, and she responded.)Orthodox Christian blogger Rod Dreher's recent post--and especially the comments--pretty well illustrate just how squeamish today's population--even omnivores--are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Greece\"","block_context":{"text":"Greece","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=greece"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}