{"id":6353,"date":"2025-01-27T18:53:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T01:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2025-01-27T18:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T01:53:57","slug":"titus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/01\/27\/titus\/","title":{"rendered":"Titus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The emperor gave Titus the signal and he plunged his sword into the gladiator. Blood gushed from his neck, and he took his last gasp. The crowd chanted and Titus waved his arms in victory. <\/p>\n<p>Titus\u2019 master approached. \u201cWell done, Titus. There hasn\u2019t been a gladiator to match you, and I hope it stays that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ground began to rumble. The emperor\u2019s statue fell in a heap, and people began tumbling to their deaths. <\/p>\n<p>Someone in the crowd yelled. \u201cLook at the mountain. It\u2019s on fire!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mount Vesuvius spewed fire and rained pumice.<\/p>\n<p>Titus would not fight another day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The emperor gave Titus the signal and he plunged his sword into the gladiator. Blood gushed from his neck, and he took his last gasp. The crowd chanted and Titus waved his arms in victory. Titus\u2019 master approached. \u201cWell done, Titus. There hasn\u2019t been a gladiator to match you, and I hope it stays that [&hellip;]<\/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":[13160,281,1141,8458,233,781,7934,3555,41,11120,13159,5521,7748,8835,1994,2420,1244,8837,6220,4899,120,13158,489],"class_list":["post-6353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-another-day","tag-blood","tag-crowd","tag-deaths","tag-emperor","tag-fire","tag-gladiator","tag-ground","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heap","tag-last-gasp","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-master","tag-mount-vesuvius","tag-mountain","tag-neck","tag-people","tag-pumice","tag-signal","tag-statue","tag-sword","tag-titus","tag-victory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353","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=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6354,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions\/6354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}