{"id":1923,"date":"2012-07-25T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T13:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alchemy1977.wordpress.com\/?p=923"},"modified":"2015-01-22T17:16:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:16:04","slug":"london-2012-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/07\/london-2012-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"London 2012 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/london-2012-olympic-games.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-927\" title=\"london-2012-olympic-games\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/london-2012-olympic-games.jpg?w=222\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>London\u2019s 2012 Summer Olympics will be the biggest event in the UK this year. It\u2019s the third time that England\u2019s capital has hosted the games and very soon almost 200 countries will be competing against each other in 26 different sporting activities. We\u2019re are now just 2 days away from the massive opening ceremony, which will kick-start the competitive event.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Olympic games originated in Ancient Greece where they were held every four years at Olympia in honour of Zeus, the king of their gods. They are believed to have begun around 776 BC as a much smaller event with fewer, male-only participants. Back then, you\u2019d have been just as likely to see athletes taking part in chariot racing as wrestling! Naturally, times have changed and nowadays not only are women allowed to compete but we\u2019ve also got inspiring events such as the Paralympic Games too.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/44821716_first416.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-924\" title=\"44821716_first416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/44821716_first416.jpg?w=255\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a>In honour of the Olympics\u2019 origins, Alchemy invites you to explore two famous Hellenic myths through our English-crafted jewellery. The Gorgon\u2019s Eye ring [R.153] and belt buckle [B.77] both pay homage to the snake-haired gorgon Medusa and Icarus Ex Machina necklace [P.556] is a steampunk interpretation of Icarus\u2019 wax and feather wings as created by his dad!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gorgons-eye-buckle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-939\" title=\"Gorgon's Eye Buckle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gorgons-eye-buckle.jpg?w=250\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can order the Gorgon&#8217;s Eye Belt<\/strong><strong>buckles by browsing our <\/strong><strong>recommended online dealers at <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"www.alchemyengland.com\/buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/buy\">www.alchemyengland.com\/buy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London\u2019s 2012 Summer Olympics will be the biggest event in the UK this year. It\u2019s the third time that England\u2019s capital has hosted the games and very soon almost 200 countries will be competing against each other in 26 different sporting activities. We\u2019re are now just 2 days away from the massive opening ceremony, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gorgon","tag-london-2012-olympics","tag-medusa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}