{"id":1296,"date":"2010-01-29T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2010-01-29T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:30:00","slug":"for-any-roman-reconstructionists-reading-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"For Any Roman Reconstructionists Reading This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Make sure that you get the<a href=\"http:\/\/improbable.com\/2010\/01\/28\/nocturnal-undergarments-in-ancient-rome-%E2%80%93-a-follow-up\/\"> night-time garments (or lack of) right.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make sure that you get the night-time garments (or lack of) right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,56],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-rome"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-kU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1315,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1315","url_meta":{"origin":1296,"position":0},"title":"Slavery, Vikings, and Charlemagne","author":"Chas S. 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