{"id":12349,"date":"2018-06-11T19:26:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T23:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12349"},"modified":"2018-06-11T19:26:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T23:26:06","slug":"the-library-at-alexandria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/the-library-at-alexandria\/","title":{"rendered":"The library at Alexandria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by the library at Alexandra. Here&#8217;s a video that tells you a few things about it &#8212; like when it was built, and the scientific breakthroughs made there. The one thing everybody knows about it is that it was destroyed in a fire &#8212; except that&#8217;s probably not true. The video is part of a series called &#8220;Today I Found Out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iFUFCmfIRbQ\">What Really Happened to the Library of Alexandria?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The channel includes other videos on history and amazing facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by the library at Alexandra. Here&#8217;s a video that tells you a few things about it &#8212; like when it was built, and the scientific breakthroughs made there. The one thing everybody knows about it is that it was destroyed in a fire &#8212; except that&#8217;s probably not true. The video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-12349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12351,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions\/12351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}