{"id":68,"date":"2014-04-24T20:25:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2014-04-24T20:25:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T20:25:46","slug":"68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mithraeum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67\" alt=\"mithraeum\" src=\"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mithraeum.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember the day when the Mithraeum in Aquae Sulis caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many got out?&#8221; I asked.<br \/>\nMagnus turned to me. &#8220;What?&#8221;<br \/>\nI: &#8220;Did anyone escape?&#8221;<br \/>\nMagnus: &#8220;Only seven besides the courier of the sun, and three of those were musicians. Mehercle!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mehercle was right. We had lost a swathe of good&#8212;in some cases, very good&#8212;officers from the legion. We had to make sure that this did not happen again.<\/p>\n<p>You have to remember that in those days policing was an infant science. But we followed best practices and, I like to think, we got results.<\/p>\n<p>We drove the foreigners, the insane and the Christians out of town that same evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the day when the Mithraeum in Aquae Sulis caught fire. &#8220;How many got out?&#8221; I asked. Magnus turned to me. &#8220;What?&#8221; I: &#8220;Did anyone escape?&#8221; Magnus: &#8220;Only seven besides the courier of the sun, and three of those were musicians. Mehercle!&#8221; Mehercle was right. We had lost a swathe of good&#8212;in some cases, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thrustingsensations.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}