{"id":4750,"date":"2011-02-18T01:23:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T09:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:54:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:54:34","slug":"the-heroic-death-of-pliny-the-elder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/the-heroic-death-of-pliny-the-elder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heroic Death of Pliny the Elder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Pliny-the-elder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4751\" title=\"Pliny-the-elder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Pliny-the-elder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Pliny-the-elder.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Pliny-the-elder-340x359.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Color of the Twist Tie on Bread packaging Means Something\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/the-color-of-the-twist-tie-on-bread-packaging-means-something\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to for Sources and to Learn What the Color of the Twist Tie on Bread Packaging Indicates<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pliny the Elder, the famed author, naturalist, philosopher, and commander, died trying to rescue people stranded on the shores after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While attempting to sail his ship near the shore, burning cinders fell on the ship.\u00a0 Rather than turn around, as his helmsman suggested, Pliny stated \u201cFortune favors the brave!\u00a0 Steer to where Pomponianus is.\u201d\u00a0 He landed safely and was able to rescue his friends and others on the shore.\u00a0 However, he never left that shore.\u00a0 Before they were able to set out again (they needed the winds to shift before they could safely leave), he died and ended up being left behind.\u00a0 It is thought he died of some sort of asthmatic attack or by some cardiovascular event, possibly brought on by the heavy fumes and heat from the volcano.\u00a0 His body was later retrieved three days later buried under pumice and it had no apparent external injuries.\u00a0 He was around 56 years old.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here to for Sources and to Learn What the Color of the Twist Tie on Bread Packaging Indicates Text Version Pliny the Elder, the famed author, naturalist, philosopher, and commander, died trying to rescue people stranded on the shores after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While attempting to sail his ship near the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1278],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-pliny-the-elder-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","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=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7101,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions\/7101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}