{"id":513745,"date":"2018-08-27T08:28:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3204fea5039eccfee613aedcf2f5cd1c"},"modified":"2018-08-27T08:28:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:28:16","slug":"in-ancient-rome-insults-in-politics-knew-hardly-any-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=513745","title":{"rendered":"In ancient Rome, insults in politics knew hardly any boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to historians, political debates in ancient Rome were conducted with great harshness and personal attacks, which were comparable to examples of hate speech on the internet. &#8220;The attacks, also known as invectives, were an integral part of public life for senators of the Roman Republic,&#8221; explains ancient historian Prof. Dr. Martin Jehne of Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to historians, political debates in ancient Rome were conducted with great harshness and personal attacks, which were comparable to examples of hate speech on the internet. &#8220;The attacks, also known as invectives, were an integral part of public life for senators of the Roman Republic,&#8221; explains ancient historian Prof. Dr. Martin Jehne of Technische Universit&auml;t Dresden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513746,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513745\/revisions\/513746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}