{"id":58,"date":"2002-02-21T22:58:53","date_gmt":"2002-02-22T03:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/alexander_the_great"},"modified":"2002-02-21T22:58:53","modified_gmt":"2002-02-22T03:58:53","slug":"alexander_the_great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/02\/alexander_the_great.html","title":{"rendered":"Alexander the Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIt looks like there&#8217;s going to be an Alexander the Great movie coming to<br \/>\ntheaters around Christmas 2003.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe good news is that the part of Alexander will be played by Heath Ledger.<br \/>\nThe bad news is that the part of the director will be played by Oliver Stone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLedger is a brilliant choice.  Right age, right talent, right looks.<br \/>\nAs for Stone&#8230; considering his total disregard for historical fact,<br \/>\nI shudder to think what he&#8217;ll do with this one.  Particularly since<br \/>\nif anything, we Americans know less about Alexander than we do about<br \/>\nJFK or Nixon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI learned a new metric unit of measurement today:\n<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.besse.at\/sms\/glossary.html\" title=\"science humor glossary\">milliHelen<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>the amount of physical beauty required to launch one ship; 1\/1000 of a Helen<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>\nLord knows that one&#8217;s going to come in handy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news is that the part of Alexander will be played by Heath Ledger. The bad news is that the part of the director will be played by Oliver Stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}