{"id":11666,"date":"2012-06-19T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T07:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11666"},"modified":"2012-06-19T03:58:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T10:58:47","slug":"after-pooping-the-ancient-romans-used-a-sponge-on-a-stick-to-wipe-which-was-re-used-and-generally-shared-with-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/after-pooping-the-ancient-romans-used-a-sponge-on-a-stick-to-wipe-which-was-re-used-and-generally-shared-with-others\/","title":{"rendered":"After Pooping, the Ancient Romans Used a Sponge on a Stick to Wipe&#8230; Which was Re-Used and Generally Shared with Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/roman-sponge-wiping.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11667\" title=\"Roman Sponge Wiping\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/roman-sponge-wiping.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/roman-sponge-wiping.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/roman-sponge-wiping-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ancient Romans favorite wiping item, including in public restrooms, was a sponge on a stick that would sit in salt water and be placed back in the salt water when done&#8230; waiting for the next person to use it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ancient Greeks were a little more sanitary, using stones and pieces of clay.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ancient Romans favorite wiping item, including in public restrooms, was a sponge on a stick that would sit in salt water and be placed back in the salt water when done&#8230; waiting for the next person to use it&#8230; Ancient Greeks were a little more sanitary, using stones and pieces of clay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2750,2751,1207],"class_list":["post-11666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-ancient-roman-facts","tag-ancient-romans","tag-wiping-methods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11668,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11666\/revisions\/11668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}