{"id":15852,"date":"2016-08-22T07:11:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=15852"},"modified":"2016-08-22T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T14:14:08","slug":"rosetta-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/rosetta-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15853\" style=\"width: 488px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/168_7505-DNG-british-museum-rosetta-stone.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15853\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/168_7505-DNG-british-museum-rosetta-stone-478x800.jpg\" alt=\"british museum rosetta stone\" width=\"478\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/168_7505-DNG-british-museum-rosetta-stone-478x800.jpg 478w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/168_7505-DNG-british-museum-rosetta-stone-149x250.jpg 149w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/168_7505-DNG-british-museum-rosetta-stone-768x1285.jpg 768w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/168_7505-DNG-british-museum-rosetta-stone.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosetta Stone @ British Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The largest empire in history &#8220;collected&#8221; (some would say stole) many significant pieces of history. Then, in the early 1960s, Britain created a law preventing the return of anything in their collections to the various countries of origin. If it&#8217;s legal it must be ethical, right?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, people can come see these items for free so that&#8217;s something. The problem is that if you visit, like we did, on a rainy day in early August things can get ridiculously crowded. Picture the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/the-louvre\/>Mona-Lisa-in-the-Louvre crowded<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest empire in history &#8220;collected&#8221; (some would say stole) many significant pieces of history. Then, in the early 1960s, Britain created a law preventing the return of anything in their collections to the various countries of origin. If it&#8217;s legal it must be ethical, right? Anyway, people can come see these items for free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[612],"tags":[621,125,594,595],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15856,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions\/15856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}