{"id":355871,"date":"2023-12-29T06:25:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=355871"},"modified":"2023-12-29T06:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T12:25:12","slug":"salt-and-salary-were-roman-soldiers-paid-in-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=355871","title":{"rendered":"Salt and Salary: Were Roman Soldiers Paid in Salt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kiwihellenist.blogspot.com\/2017\/01\/salt-and-salary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few weeks ago, we looked at myths to do with ploughing over cities and salting the earth. Today we\u2019re looking at a kind of companion myth. The basic idea is that Roman soldiers were paid in salt, or received an allowance of \u2018salt money\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. A few weeks ago, we looked at myths to do with ploughing over cities and salting the earth. Today we\u2019re looking at a kind of companion myth. The basic idea is that Roman soldiers were paid in salt, or received an allowance of \u2018salt money\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355872,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355871\/revisions\/355872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}