{"id":663084,"date":"2025-04-10T02:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=663084"},"modified":"2025-04-10T02:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:05:04","slug":"king-leonidas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/10\/king-leonidas-3\/","title":{"rendered":"King Leonidas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each city had its own general, but the one most admired and the leader of the whole army<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">was a Lacedaemonian, Leonidas, son of Anaxandrides, son of Leon, son of Eurycratides, son of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anaxandrus, son of Eurycrates, son of Polydorus, son of Alcamenes, son of Teleclus, son of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Archelaus, son of Hegesilaus, son of Doryssus, son of Leobotes, son of Echestratus, son of Agis,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">son of Eurysthenes, son of Aristodemus, son of Aristomachus, son of Cleodaeus, son of Hyllus,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">son of Heracles. Leonidas had gained the kingship at Sparta unexpectedly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The offspring of Hercules! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You must have a son!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He now came to Thermopylae with the appointed three hundred he had selected, all of whom had sons.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Medizing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00e2\u20ac\u201d> don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t side with the Persians!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mainland China, mainland Chinese as the new Persians? We Americans, we the new Spartans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each city had its own general, but the one most admired and the leader of the whole army was a Lacedaemonian, Leonidas, son of Anaxandrides, son of Leon, son of Eurycratides, son of Anaxandrus, \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663084"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663089,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663084\/revisions\/663089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}