{"id":90810,"date":"2026-04-12T16:47:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/mary-beard-says-the-ancient-world-is-a-good-place-for-perspective\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:47:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:47:40","slug":"mary-beard-says-the-ancient-world-is-a-good-place-for-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/mary-beard-says-the-ancient-world-is-a-good-place-for-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Beard says the ancient world is a &#8216;good place&#8217; for perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/entertainment\/books\/2192673\/Mary-Beard-says-history-of-the-ancient-world-is-a-good-place-for-perspective\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/39\/590x\/2192673_1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s best known classicist on Twitter rows, the benefits of reading history and the 3,000 year old bread that helped spark her love of antiquity<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/entertainment\/books\/2192673\/Mary-Beard-says-history-of-the-ancient-world-is-a-good-place-for-perspective\">Daily Express :: Books Feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s best known classicist on Twitter rows, the benefits of reading history and the 3,000 year old bread that helped spark her love of antiquity Daily Express :: Books Feed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1023],"tags":[3741,15986,3196,870,10604,1568,194,4863],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}