{"id":1378,"date":"2015-04-13T17:10:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afriendinrome.it\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:54:24","slug":"happy-birthday-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/?p=1378","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Roma!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ap80068872304155554_big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2815 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ap80068872304155554_big-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"ap80068872304155554_big\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ap80068872304155554_big-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ap80068872304155554_big-220x331.jpg 220w, https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ap80068872304155554_big.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Every April 21st the &#8220;Eternal city&#8221;\u00a0gets older!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even this year there will be the historical\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.natalidiroma.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.romeartlover.it\/Nataroma.html\">parade<\/a>\u00a0along Via dei Fori Imperiali, just in front of the Colosseum, ending at Circus Maximus (the ancient chariot race track) where \u00a0the ritual ceremony of the &#8220;digging of the trench&#8221;, a ri-evocation of the foundation of Rome, will take place: Romulus, Remus, the Vestal Virgins, the she-wolf&#8230;the whole tale will be much clearer afterwards!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PS. The historical group arranging the parade is also offering the activity &#8220;Gladiator for a day&#8221;, a fun way to learn about ancient history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every April 21st the &#8220;Eternal city&#8221;\u00a0gets older! Even this year there will be the historical\u00a0parade\u00a0along Via dei Fori Imperiali, just in front of the Colosseum, ending at Circus Maximus (the ancient chariot race track) where \u00a0the ritual ceremony of the &#8220;digging of the trench&#8221;, a ri-evocation of the foundation of Rome, will take place: Romulus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events","category-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6323,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/6323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}