{"id":182,"date":"2004-05-10T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2004-05-10T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T21:29:00","slug":"182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Trojans, anyone?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have always wondered why sports teams and condoms were named after the Trojans too, but these guys<\/a> do it so much more lucidly. <\/p>\n

And the word is that the movie<\/a> totally ignores the gods. What’s the point without that essential flavor of human futility that the Olympian backstory adds? But the Notorious M.C. has been commenting on how buff Brad Pitt is looking these days, so maybe we will see it anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trojans, anyone? I have always wondered why sports teams and condoms were named after the Trojans too, but these guys do it so much more lucidly. And the word is that the movie totally ignores the gods. What’s the point without that essential flavor of human futility that the Olympian backstory adds? But the Notorious […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-182","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":388,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=388","url_meta":{"origin":182,"position":0},"title":"Diffusionists, Rejoice?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 3, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Diffusionists, rejoice! I blogged it, so now I needed to watch it, if only for the llamas. Turned off by poor reviews, I had passed over Troy, until I learned that it made a case for Bronze Age trade between Anatolia and Peru. How else did there come to be\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9948,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9948","url_meta":{"origin":182,"position":1},"title":"The Gods Do Not Vote, So Why Are You Asking Them?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"When I was a kid, I read some condensed version of the Iliad for young people. I did not understand the gods. After all, I was raised to be a Christian. In the Bible, YHWH was supposed to take care of his special people, the Jews, although sometimes he expressed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/catland-brett-kavanaugh-witch.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/catland-brett-kavanaugh-witch.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/catland-brett-kavanaugh-witch.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/catland-brett-kavanaugh-witch.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}