{"id":198,"date":"2012-02-28T18:45:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T18:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2012-02-28T18:45:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T18:45:55","slug":"c-is-for-chariots-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"C is for Chariots of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chariot racing was an event at the ancient Olympics. Charioteers were usually paid servants. Winners received red woollen bands, but the olive wreath crown was bestowed on the owner. \u00a0This meant that whilst women were not meant to attend the Olympic games (for fear of being thrown from a cliff) they were able to win.<\/p>\n<p>Gone was the saying &#8211; you&#8217;ve got to be in it, to win it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hogsbackbooks.com\/oisforolympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/charriots-of-fire-rev04g.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97\" title=\"Chariot Racing by Zack McLaughlin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hogsbackbooks.com\/oisforolympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/charriots-of-fire-rev04g.png\" alt=\"Olympic Chariot Racing\" width=\"936\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hogsbackbooks.com\/oisforolympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/charriots-of-fire-rev04g.png 936w, http:\/\/www.hogsbackbooks.com\/oisforolympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/charriots-of-fire-rev04g-300x96.png 300w, http:\/\/www.hogsbackbooks.com\/oisforolympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/charriots-of-fire-rev04g-500x160.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chariot racing was an event at the ancient Olympics. Charioteers were usually paid servants. Winners received red woollen bands, but the olive wreath crown was bestowed on the owner. \u00a0This meant that whilst women were not meant to attend the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/?p=198\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}