{"id":55663,"date":"2019-10-13T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T07:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/roman-pedestrian-crossings\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T00:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T22:37:15","slug":"roman-pedestrian-crossings","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/roman-pedestrian-crossings\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman &#8220;pedestrian crossings&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photo shows Roman pedestrian crossings in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/pompeii\/\">Pompeii<\/a> &#8211; stone blocks arranged across the street. These are the prototypes of today&#8217;s &#8220;zebra crossing&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The purpose here, however, was completely different from the modern ones crossing the street. Streets served not only as a communication route but also as a system for draining excess water and sewage. The blocks made it possible to cross the street without entering the dirt.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the breaks made it possible for carts pulled by <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/horses-in-ancient-rome\/\">horses<\/a> to pass. To this day, you can see the traces of cart wheels, carved into the stone of the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":55661,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-55663","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-artifact"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/55663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/55663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=55663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}