{"id":13211,"date":"2010-08-07T08:37:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T15:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2010\/08\/07\/graffiti-in-pompeii.html"},"modified":"2010-08-07T08:37:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T15:37:32","slug":"graffiti-in-pompeii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2010\/08\/07\/graffiti-in-pompeii\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti in Pompeii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kendra tells me that a piece of graffiti found on a wall in Pompeii translates to &ldquo;Everybody writes on walls except me.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Which led me to search for other ancient graffiti. It looks like a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pompeiana.org\/Resources\/Ancient\/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm\">Pompeii's graffiti<\/a> was pornographic and\/or scatological; a fascinating look at ancient life. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/college.cengage.com:80\/history\/west\/perry\/western_civilization\/6e\/students\/primary\/pompeii.htm\">more Pompeii graffiti<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pompeiana.org\/Resources\/Epigraphy\/Ancient%20Graffiti%20on%20the%20walls%20of%20Pompeii.htm\">even more Pompeii graffiti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My other favorite, besides the one Kendra quoted, is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also of possible interest: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk\/westmainland\/maeshowe\/index.html\">graffiti at Maes Howe<\/a>, a chambered tomb in Scotland. &ldquo;These runes were carved by the man most skilled in runes in the western ocean.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra tells me that a piece of graffiti found on a wall in Pompeii translates to &ldquo;Everybody writes on walls except me.&rdquo; Which led me to search for other ancient&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graffiti","category-maledicta"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}