{"id":237,"date":"2004-08-01T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2004-08-01T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-01T15:39:00","slug":"237","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Let the games begin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jason Pitzl-Waters at Wild Hunt blogs about the revived Nemean Games<\/a>, where you do not have to be a world-class athlete to run the same race as did the ancient Greeks.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, PBS will be running two episodes next week of The Real Olympics<\/a>, complete with the gore of chariot racing, the blood and flies from the sacrifices . . . or at least as much as can be put on television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let the games begin Jason Pitzl-Waters at Wild Hunt blogs about the revived Nemean Games, where you do not have to be a world-class athlete to run the same race as did the ancient Greeks. Meanwhile, PBS will be running two episodes next week of The Real Olympics, complete with the gore of chariot racing, […]<\/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-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-237","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1304,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1304","url_meta":{"origin":237,"position":0},"title":"Magical Dolls and Missionary Board Games","author":"Chas S. 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