{"id":168,"date":"2014-04-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamaragranthambooks.com\/2014\/04\/a-to-z-challenge-n-is-for-nike\/"},"modified":"2015-11-13T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:20:47","slug":"a-to-z-challenge-n-is-for-nike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/a-to-z-challenge-n-is-for-nike\/","title":{"rendered":"A to Z Challenge: N is for Nike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard of Nike, but perhaps not in terms of the Greek goddess. If not for her, we&#8217;d all be wearing shoes and windbreakers named Hermaphroditus or Ascanius. Personally, I&#8217;m glad they went with Nike. Care to guess what Nike was the goddess of?<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s the personification of victory, to whom a temple was dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis. She was also known as the winged goddess of victory. Another fact to note: Nike is one of the most commonly portrayed figures on Greek coins.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mAr81bGJ9FQ\/U0sDOF5tigI\/AAAAAAAAA2U\/SiEsUELKFKA\/s1600\/800px-Goddess_Nike.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/800px-Goddess_Nike.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nThis statue of Nike is located on the Titanic engineer&#8217;s museum in Southampton England.<\/p>\n<p>I need YOU to read my book! Raze is only $2.99 on Amazon. My little ebook has gotten some great reviews, and I&#8217;d love for you to find out why&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ebl9-7e5y7Q\/U0sD4beGsaI\/AAAAAAAAA2c\/XXtvOwvMt0c\/s1600\/Shine+Crest+stained+glass+Raze+Kindle.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Shine-Crest-stained-glass-Raze-Kindle8.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard of Nike, but perhaps not in terms of the Greek goddess. If not for her, we&#8217;d all be wearing shoes and windbreakers named Hermaphroditus or Ascanius. Personally, I&#8217;m glad they went with Nike. Care to guess what Nike was the goddess of? She&#8217;s the personification of victory, to whom a temple was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}