{"id":34,"date":"2005-12-27T21:25:35","date_gmt":"2005-12-28T02:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2005-12-27T21:25:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-28T02:25:35","slug":"troy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/27\/troy\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw Wolfgang &#8220;Boot&#8221; Petersen&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=accretiondisc-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=tg\/browse\/-\/404276\">Troy<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=accretiondisc-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em>. I had this one confused in my mind with Oliver Stone&#8217;s <em>Alexander<\/em>. (They both came out a few weeks apart in 2004. I would have bet anything it was 2005, which just shows how fast the past 18 months have spun by.) I guess neither one was a runaway hit, but I thought Troy was pretty okay.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read <em>The Iliad<\/em>, so I don&#8217;t know how badly they ruint it. But if these are the ruins, the original must have been outstanding. It makes me want to read it in the original Attic Greek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw Wolfgang &#8220;Boot&#8221; Petersen&#8217;s Troy. I had this one confused in my mind with Oliver Stone&#8217;s Alexander. (They both came out a few weeks apart in 2004. I would have bet anything it was 2005, which just shows how fast the past 18 months have spun by.) I guess neither one was a runaway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saRqpr-troy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}