{"id":8564,"date":"2018-01-29T14:18:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T18:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=8564"},"modified":"2018-01-29T14:18:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T18:18:57","slug":"homer-stephen-king-classical-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=8564","title":{"rendered":"Homer, The Stephen King of Classical Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Idomeneus speared Erymas in the mouth; the bronze point of the spear went clean through it beneath the brain, crashing in among the white bones and smashing them up.  His teeth were all of them knocked out and the blood came gushing in a stream from both his eyes; it also came gurgling up from his mouth and nostrils, and the darkness of death enfolded him round about.<\/p>\n<p>-The Iliad<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is some pretty gruesome stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idomeneus speared Erymas in the mouth; the bronze point of the spear went clean through it beneath the brain, crashing in among the white bones and smashing them up. His teeth were all of them knocked out and the blood came gushing in a stream from both his eyes; it also came gurgling up from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=8564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homer, The Stephen King of Classical Writers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8566,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions\/8566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}