{"id":136628,"date":"2018-05-29T22:20:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T04:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136628"},"modified":"2018-05-30T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:16:08","slug":"the-disaster-of-a-d-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/29\/the-disaster-of-a-d-79.html","title":{"rendered":"The Disaster of A.D. 79"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had the privilege of visiting both Pompeii<\/a>\u00a0and Herculaneum<\/a>. They are remarkable sites (and sights). A\u00a0touring Pompeii exhibit — not, I think, the one mentioned in Chicago — came through Denver a few years back.<\/p>\n

If you have the chance to go to such an exhibit (if not the places themselves), I highly recommend it. The lesson of life interrupted, of a glimpse of disaster overcoming people who had no clue it was coming, and just the plain old richness of understanding of Roman life that both these cities provide is well worth the effort.<\/p>\n


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\nResurrecting Pompeii<\/a><\/span>
\nA new exhibition brings the doomed residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum vividly to life<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had the privilege of visiting both Pompeii\u00a0and Herculaneum. They are remarkable sites (and sights). A\u00a0touring Pompeii exhibit — not, I think, the one mentioned in Chicago — came through Denver a few years back. If you have the chance to go to such an exhibit (if not the places themselves), I highly recommend it. … Continue reading “The Disaster of A.D. 79”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,108,721,716,102],"tags":[1646],"class_list":["post-136628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-history","category-interesting-places","category-my-travel","category-travel-italy-2011","tag-pompeii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/pompeii.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32908,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/amused-that-the-pompeii-exhibi.html","url_meta":{"origin":136628,"position":0},"title":"Amused that the Pompeii exhibi…","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Mar-13 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Amused that the Pompeii exhibit that was in Denver a few months ago is now at the British Museum in time for me to catch the news coverage.","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31527,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/more-on-pompeii.html","url_meta":{"origin":136628,"position":1},"title":"More on Pompeii","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Nov-12 1:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"On pumice and ash and pyroclastic flows.The Denver Natural History Museum Pompeii exhibit had a remarkable video, visually recreating -- without people, for better or worse -- the timeline of various volcanic impacts on the city. 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