{"id":199,"date":"2004-06-04T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-04T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2004-06-04T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-04T14:01:00","slug":"199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After <em>Troy<\/em>, <em>Alexander<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexander-the-great.co.uk\/\">official site<\/a> for a new movie about Alexander the Great, starring Colin Farrell and directed by Oliver Stone, accompanied by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/philalexandros\/fun.html\">fan\/critic&#8217;s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Troy, Alexander The official site for a new movie about Alexander the Great, starring Colin Farrell and directed by Oliver Stone, accompanied by a fan\/critic&#8217;s site.<\/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-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-199","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":283,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=283","url_meta":{"origin":199,"position":0},"title":"More than a passing fad?\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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