{"id":6765,"date":"2011-11-09T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2011-11-09T21:51:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T05:51:06","slug":"stadium-originally-meant-a-foot-race-or-an-ancient-measure-of-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/stadium-originally-meant-a-foot-race-or-an-ancient-measure-of-length\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStadium\u201d Originally Meant \u201cA Foot Race\u201d or an Ancient Measure of Length"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stadium-etymology.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6766\" title=\"stadium-etymology\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stadium-etymology.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stadium-etymology.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stadium-etymology-340x232.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStadium\u201d originally meant \u201ca foot race\u201d or \u201can ancient measure of length\u201d, which was about a furlong or 1\/8 of a Roman mile.\u00a0 The name was also affixed to any track that was one stadium in length.\u00a0 This eventually became any running track and, finally, as we use it today to refer to any large structure used for sporting events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/why-championship-football-games-are-called-bowls\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## \u201cStadium\u201d originally meant \u201ca foot race\u201d or \u201can ancient measure of length\u201d, which was about a furlong or 1\/8 of a Roman mile.\u00a0 The name was also affixed to any track that was one stadium in length.\u00a0 This eventually became any running track and, finally, as we use it today to refer to any large structure used for sporting [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[770,771,772,773],"class_list":["post-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-stadium","tag-sports-etymology","tag-sports-facts","tag-sports-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765","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=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7202,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions\/7202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}