{"id":5811,"date":"2023-10-30T09:53:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T16:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2023-10-31T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:56:10","slug":"the-vestal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/10\/30\/the-vestal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vestal"},"content":{"rendered":"

In ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins held a sacred place. As long as each Vestal remained chaste, the walls of Rome would never be penetrated. But…<\/p>\n

“Did you hear? One of the Vestal Virgins is pregnant.”<\/p>\n

“What?”<\/p>\n

“Pregnant. The belly’s showing.”<\/p>\n

“How in the world?”<\/p>\n

“Everyone thought it was Marius or Septimus that did it.”<\/p>\n

“Did either confess?”<\/p>\n

“No, not even after torture. They put other names to her. Claudius, Tullius\u2026” <\/p>\n

“I can see one of those guys being involved.”<\/p>\n

“But the Vestal denied it.”<\/p>\n

“Huh?”<\/p>\n

“She said it must be some kind of immaculate conception.”<\/p>\n

“What? That excuse again?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Guest Contributor David Sydney <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins held a sacred place. As long as each Vestal remained chaste, the walls of Rome would never be penetrated. But… “Did you hear? One of the Vestal Virgins is pregnant.” “What?” “Pregnant. The belly’s showing.” “How in the world?” “Everyone thought it was Marius or Septimus that did it.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12261,7532,12263,11783,5854,8501,41,10515,12264,6891,7787,4061,232,793,12262,4396,3880],"class_list":["post-5811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-ancient-rome","tag-belly","tag-chaste","tag-david-sydney","tag-everyone","tag-excuse","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guys","tag-immaculate-conception","tag-names","tag-place","tag-pregnant","tag-rome","tag-torture","tag-vestal-virgins","tag-walls","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5812,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions\/5812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}