{"id":174,"date":"2010-12-31T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristinjanz.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2010-12-31T17:00:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T22:00:54","slug":"the-joy-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of &#8230; Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While thumbing through the Lonely Planet guide to Italy on my new Kindle, Donald found a reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Roman-Sex-100-B-C-D\/dp\/0810942631\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1293832066&#038;sr=1-1\">this book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the Publishers Weekly review:  <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Colorful frescoes, metal objects or ceramics are shown in 114 illustrations (95 in color), divided among nine chapters explaining ancient societal attitudes toward sex (&#8220;Woman on Top: Women&#8217;s Liberation in the First Century A.D&#8221;; &#8220;Laughing at Taboo Sex in the Suburban Baths&#8221;), while subheadings like &#8220;Priapus, Protection, and Penetration&#8221; offer scholarly and personal anecdotes.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Since we both write about fantasy worlds inspired by ancient Rome, it would probably be a very useful reference for both of us.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve not yet added it to our wedding registry, though.<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, yeah, in case you didn&#8217;t notice on Facebook, Donald and I are engaged now.  Yay!  It&#8217;s very exciting, though a little overwhelming.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While thumbing through the Lonely Planet guide to Italy on my new Kindle, Donald found a reference to this book. From the Publishers Weekly review: &#8216;Colorful frescoes, metal objects or ceramics are shown in 114 illustrations (95 in color), divided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/?p=174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,25,97,7],"tags":[301,296],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-rome","category-books","category-sex","category-writing","tag-books","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}