{"id":4333,"date":"2016-07-26T01:52:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T08:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2016-07-26T01:52:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T08:52:55","slug":"ancient-origins-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Origins of the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, Greeks thought that competition encouraged excellence and held contests to honor the god Zeus. How do the Olympic games of today compare to their origins in Ancient Greece?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The ancient origins of the Olympics - Armand D&#039;Angour\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VdHHus8IgYA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, Greeks thought that competition encouraged excellence and held contests to honor the god Zeus. How do the Olympic games of today compare to their origins in Ancient Greece?&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/\">[Continue]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-games-hobbies","8":"category-history-holidays","9":"entry","10":"gs-1","11":"gs-odd","12":"gs-even","13":"gs-featured-content-entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ancient Origins of the Olympics &#187; Video \u00bb Surfnetkids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Back in the day, Greeks thought that competition encouraged excellence and held contests to honor the god Zeus. How do the Olympic games of today compare\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ancient Origins of the Olympics &#187; Video \u00bb Surfnetkids\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Back in the day, Greeks thought that competition encouraged excellence and held contests to honor the god Zeus. How do the Olympic games of today compare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Video \u00bb Surfnetkids\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/surfnetkids\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-07-26T08:52:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ancient-origins-of-the-olympics.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"surfnetkids\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@barbarafeldman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@barbarafeldman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"surfnetkids\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/4333\\\/ancient-origins-olympics\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/4333\\\/ancient-origins-olympics\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"surfnetkids\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1f4d87b66676f6515537a9e3a881df28\"},\"headline\":\"Ancient Origins of the Olympics\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-07-26T08:52:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/4333\\\/ancient-origins-olympics\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":48,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/4333\\\/ancient-origins-olympics\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/07\\\/ancient-origins-of-the-olympics.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Games and Hobbies\",\"History and Holidays\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/4333\\\/ancient-origins-olympics\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/4333\\\/ancient-origins-olympics\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/4333\\\/ancient-origins-olympics\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ancient Origins of the Olympics &#187; Video \u00bb Surfnetkids\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/4333\\\/ancient-origins-olympics\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/4333\\\/ancient-origins-olympics\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/07\\\/ancient-origins-of-the-olympics.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-07-26T08:52:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1f4d87b66676f6515537a9e3a881df28\"},\"description\":\"Back in the day, Greeks thought that competition encouraged excellence and held contests to honor the god Zeus. How do the Olympic games of today compare\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/4333\\\/ancient-origins-olympics\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/4333\\\/ancient-origins-olympics\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/4333\\\/ancient-origins-olympics\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/07\\\/ancient-origins-of-the-olympics.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/07\\\/ancient-origins-of-the-olympics.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1080},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/4333\\\/ancient-origins-olympics\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Video\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Games and Hobbies\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/category\\\/games-hobbies\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Ancient Origins of the Olympics\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/\",\"name\":\"Video \u00bb Surfnetkids\",\"description\":\"Educational videos for families and classrooms.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/video\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1f4d87b66676f6515537a9e3a881df28\",\"name\":\"surfnetkids\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f6e46f3b8086ff1944261ad7589f4953e61a09467d9352840df2b96d32ad45bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f6e46f3b8086ff1944261ad7589f4953e61a09467d9352840df2b96d32ad45bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f6e46f3b8086ff1944261ad7589f4953e61a09467d9352840df2b96d32ad45bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"surfnetkids\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ancient Origins of the Olympics &#187; Video \u00bb Surfnetkids","description":"Back in the day, Greeks thought that competition encouraged excellence and held contests to honor the god Zeus. How do the Olympic games of today compare","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ancient Origins of the Olympics &#187; Video \u00bb Surfnetkids","og_description":"Back in the day, Greeks thought that competition encouraged excellence and held contests to honor the god Zeus. How do the Olympic games of today compare","og_url":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/","og_site_name":"Video \u00bb Surfnetkids","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/surfnetkids\/","article_published_time":"2016-07-26T08:52:55+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":1080,"url":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ancient-origins-of-the-olympics.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"surfnetkids","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@barbarafeldman","twitter_site":"@barbarafeldman","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"surfnetkids"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/"},"author":{"name":"surfnetkids","@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/#\/schema\/person\/1f4d87b66676f6515537a9e3a881df28"},"headline":"Ancient Origins of the Olympics","datePublished":"2016-07-26T08:52:55+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/"},"wordCount":48,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ancient-origins-of-the-olympics.jpg","articleSection":["Games and Hobbies","History and Holidays"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/","url":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/","name":"Ancient Origins of the Olympics &#187; Video \u00bb Surfnetkids","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ancient-origins-of-the-olympics.jpg","datePublished":"2016-07-26T08:52:55+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/#\/schema\/person\/1f4d87b66676f6515537a9e3a881df28"},"description":"Back in the day, Greeks thought that competition encouraged excellence and held contests to honor the god Zeus. How do the Olympic games of today compare","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ancient-origins-of-the-olympics.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ancient-origins-of-the-olympics.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/4333\/ancient-origins-olympics\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Video","item":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Games and Hobbies","item":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/category\/games-hobbies\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Ancient Origins of the Olympics"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/","name":"Video \u00bb Surfnetkids","description":"Educational videos for families and classrooms.","inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/#\/schema\/person\/1f4d87b66676f6515537a9e3a881df28","name":"surfnetkids","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6e46f3b8086ff1944261ad7589f4953e61a09467d9352840df2b96d32ad45bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6e46f3b8086ff1944261ad7589f4953e61a09467d9352840df2b96d32ad45bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6e46f3b8086ff1944261ad7589f4953e61a09467d9352840df2b96d32ad45bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"surfnetkids"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4336,"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions\/4336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}