{"id":225722,"date":"2016-04-21T08:02:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T12:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=225722"},"modified":"2016-04-21T08:02:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T12:02:17","slug":"flame-for-rio-olympics-is-lit-at-birthplace-of-ancient-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=225722","title":{"rendered":"Flame for Rio Olympics is lit at birthplace of ancient Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/rio-organizing-committee-chief-pledges-to-deliver-history-\/15654466\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/olympics\/2016\/04\/21\/15654466\/15654468-1461240053-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"APTOPIX Greece Rio Olympics Flame Lighting\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Olympic flame has been kindled at the birthplace of the ancient games in Greece, heralding the start of a 15-week journey leading to the Aug. 5 opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/rio-organizing-committee-chief-pledges-to-deliver-history-\/15654466\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/rio-organizing-committee-chief-pledges-to-deliver-history-\/15654466\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Flame for Rio Olympics is lit at birthplace of ancient Games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic flame has been kindled at the birthplace of the ancient games in Greece, heralding the start of a 15-week journey leading to the Aug&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}