{"id":1246,"date":"2012-08-05T23:14:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T03:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2012-08-05T23:14:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T03:14:51","slug":"olympic-games-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/olympic-games-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic games at the Metropolitan Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1247\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/amphora_met_aug12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1247\" title=\"Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora, Greek, Attic, black-figure, ca. 560 - 550 B.C.\" src=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/amphora_met_aug12-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora, Greek, Attic, black-figure, ca. 560 - 550 B.C.\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/amphora_met_aug12-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/amphora_met_aug12-781x1024.jpg 781w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/amphora_met_aug12.jpg 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora, Greek, Attic, black-figure, ca. 560 &#8211; 550 B.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a private moment of Olympics-mania today, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s installation of Panathenaic prize amphora to reconnect with ancient Olympians.\u00a0 One of the earliest of such vessels (560-550 B.C.) in the Met\u2019s collection, it was filled with olive oil and awarded to winners of events like the 200 yard race depicted here.\u00a0 If you were an Olympic winner, would you rather have a gold metal or 42 liters of olive oil?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a private moment of Olympics-mania today, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s installation of Panathenaic prize amphora to reconnect with ancient Olympians.\u00a0 One of the earliest of such vessels (560-550 B.C.) in the Met\u2019s collection, it was filled with olive oil and awarded to winners of events like the 200 yard race depicted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/olympic-games-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Olympic games at the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[283,102,282,281,280],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-ancient-ceramics","tag-metropolitan-museum-of-art","tag-nikias","tag-panathenaic-prize-amphora","tag-terracotta-amphora"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-k6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}