{"id":16001,"date":"2016-10-04T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T15:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=16001"},"modified":"2016-10-04T08:52:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T15:52:20","slug":"elgin-marbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/elgin-marbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Elgin Marbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16002\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/168_7522-DNG-elgin-marbles-parthenon-british-museum.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16002\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/168_7522-DNG-elgin-marbles-parthenon-british-museum-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"elgin-marbles-parthenon-british-museum\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/168_7522-DNG-elgin-marbles-parthenon-british-museum-800x504.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/168_7522-DNG-elgin-marbles-parthenon-british-museum-250x158.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/168_7522-DNG-elgin-marbles-parthenon-british-museum-768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parthenon Marbles in the Duveen Gallery of the British Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At some point the Elgin Marbles will make their way back to Greece as their presence in the British Museum seems very wrong. At that point, I&#8217;m guessing admission to the British Museum will go from free to 30 pounds as they can&#8217;t exactly charge people to see stolen property currently.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo features marble sculpture created about 2,500 years ago on the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens. If you look really closely you can see holes in certain places. These weren&#8217;t from destruction in transport. Instead, these are original and were there to hold objects that are now missing like horse bridle, reigns, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point the Elgin Marbles will make their way back to Greece as their presence in the British Museum seems very wrong. At that point, I&#8217;m guessing admission to the British Museum will go from free to 30 pounds as they can&#8217;t exactly charge people to see stolen property currently. Today&#8217;s photo features marble [&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\/16001"}],"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=16001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16004,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001\/revisions\/16004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}