{"id":8320,"date":"2022-03-06T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T08:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=8320"},"modified":"2022-03-06T10:48:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T08:48:32","slug":"the-marble-quarries-of-carrara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/the-marble-quarries-of-carrara\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marble Quarries of Carrara"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a rock quarry where we can climb not too far away. The rock is different so easier to climb. I don&#8217;t think climbing on marble would be a good climbing experience. What is interesting about this image is the scale of the quarry. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carrara_marble\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carrara_marble\">Luna Marble<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The huge marble quarries of Carrara, Italy were first opened by the Romans in the 2nd century BC, their highly prized stone used to create many of Rome&#39;s grandest monuments. They have since produced more marble than any other site on earth. Spot the diggers to see the epic scale! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zM8hpytEd0\">pic.twitter.com\/zM8hpytEd0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptimoPrincipi\/status\/1500233050969579528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> \n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How the quarry looks from the air, today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m14!1m12!1m3!1d25176.286796568642!2d10.12326496756276!3d44.091460634789655!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sch!4v1646556382128!5m2!1sen!2sch\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>There is a rock quarry where we can climb not too far away. The rock is different so easier to climb. I don&#8217;t think climbing on marble would be a good climbing experience. What is interesting about this image is the scale of the quarry. This is Luna Marble. The huge marble quarries of Carrara, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4241,5],"tags":[4961,4962,4243],"class_list":["post-8320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archeology","category-travel","tag-marble","tag-quarry","tag-roman-civilisation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8321,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions\/8321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}