{"id":54,"date":"2013-07-27T13:07:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T18:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2013-07-27T13:40:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T18:40:32","slug":"ostia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Ostia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some pictures I took in Ostia.<\/p>\n

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Ostia was the port of ancient Rome. Large merchant ships arrived at this port bringing grain, wine, and a vast assortment of merchandise for the city of Rome. There were many warehouses to store that merchandise here. There was also a population of merchants and shops for the people in Ostia. It was also possible to\u00a0book passage on the commercial ships\u00a0that docked here. Ostia was not a base for the Roman Navy. The nearest\u00a0such base was Misenum on the northwest tip of the\u00a0Bay of Naples.\u00a0Today Ostia is several miles away from the sea. It no longer could serve as a port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some pictures I took in Ostia. [slideshow_deploy id=’53’]   Ostia was the port of ancient Rome. Large merchant ships arrived at this port bringing grain, wine, and a vast assortment of merchandise for the city of Rome. There were many warehouses to store that merchandise here. There was also a population of merchants … Continue reading Ostia<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}