{"id":293,"date":"2010-08-09T04:54:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T04:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2010-08-09T05:10:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T05:10:59","slug":"104-here-comes-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"104- Here Comes the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have heard me talk about this podcast before and you probably will again a few hundred times more\u2026..this week one of those lesser known but fascinating points in history. This weeks its all about Sex Sun and\u00c2\u00a0Assassinations as we look at \u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\"> Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus. <\/span>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">He replaced the traditional head of the\u00c2\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #0645ad; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" title=\"Roman mythology\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_mythology\">Roman pantheon<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #0645ad; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" title=\"Jupiter (god)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jupiter_(god)\">Jupiter<\/a>, with a lesser god,\u00c2\u00a0<em><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #0645ad; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" title=\"Sol Invictus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sol_Invictus\">Deus Sol Invictus<\/a><\/em>, and forced leading members of Rome\u2019s government to participate in religious rites celebrating this deity, which he personally led. Elagabalus married as many as five times, lavished favors on courtiers popularly assumed to have been his homosexual lovers, and was reported to have prostituted himself in the imperial palace. \u201d Imagine what the Neocons would do with that. Listen in over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/thehistoryofrome.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">History of Rome Podcast<\/a>..<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TheHistoryOfRome\/~3\/qzPjIij0p_M\/104_here_comes_the_sun\">104- Here Comes the Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have heard me talk about this podcast before and you probably will again a few hundred times more\u2026..this week one of those lesser known but fascinating points in history. This weeks its all about Sex Sun and\u00c2\u00a0Assassinations as we look at \u00c2\u00a0 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus. \u201cHe replaced the traditional head of the\u00c2\u00a0Roman pantheon,\u00c2\u00a0Jupiter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}