{"id":568,"date":"2026-05-25T03:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2026-05-25T03:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:20:43","slug":"domed-stadiums-2000-yrs-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Domed stadiums 2,000 yrs ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Colosseum had a retractable roof, operated by a crew of sailors, almost 2000 years before any modern stadium.<br><br>It was called the velarium: an enormous awning of canvas and rope that could be drawn across the open top of the arena to shade fifty thousand spectators from the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/51pK91G2W7\">pic.twitter.com\/51pK91G2W7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesLucasIT\/status\/2058643672124821711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-rome-in-the-21st-century","category-realities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caesarsbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}