{"id":3904,"date":"2012-03-06T10:05:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T17:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2012-03-06T10:08:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T17:08:18","slug":"pop-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3904","title":{"rendered":"Pop Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Added to the blogroll: Juliette Harrisson’s Pop Classics<\/a>, <\/em>“witty and entertaining random thoughts on appearances of Greek and Roman stuff in popular culture.”<\/p>\n

Here is her episode-by-episode review of the series <\/a>Rome<\/a>, <\/em>of which, it must be said, I was a total fan.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Boring Soldier” and “Dodgey Soldier” \u2014 love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Added to the blogroll: Juliette Harrisson’s Pop Classics, “witty and entertaining random thoughts on appearances of Greek and Roman stuff in popular culture.” Here is her episode-by-episode review of the series Rome, of which, it must be said, I was a total fan. “Boring Soldier” and “Dodgey Soldier” \u2014 love it.<\/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":[33,36,56],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-greece","tag-movies","tag-rome"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-10Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":548,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=548","url_meta":{"origin":3904,"position":0},"title":"What the Romans did for\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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