{"id":6805,"date":"2012-10-25T14:17:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T19:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=6805"},"modified":"2012-10-25T14:17:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T19:17:38","slug":"perhaps-it-should-be-posed-as-a-means-to-preserve-the-cultural-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2012\/10\/25\/perhaps-it-should-be-posed-as-a-means-to-preserve-the-cultural-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Near Monuments Banned, Italians in Uproar: Perhaps it should have been posed as a means to preserve the cultural heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6810\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/24rome-articleLarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6810\" title=\"24rome-articleLarge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/24rome-articleLarge-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faic.wpenginepowered.com\/conservators-converse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2012\/10\/24rome-articleLarge-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faic.wpenginepowered.com\/conservators-converse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2012\/10\/24rome-articleLarge.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Germans ate ice cream at the central fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome. Picture courtesy NYTimes.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to an article in The New York Times (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/24\/world\/europe\/snacking-at-the-roman-colosseum-prepare-to-pay-a-fine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buon Appetito, but Not Next to the Monuments<\/a>&#8220;, by Elisabetta Povoledo, October 24, 2012), this month Rome instituted a new municipal ordinance outlawing eating and drinking and camping in areas of &#8220;particular historic, artistic, architectonic and cultural value&#8221;. The ordinance has been met with great opposition by Romans who have formed flash mobs with food on the steps leading to City Hall. The ordinance has been posed as a matter of civility and decorum. Perhaps opposition to it would be less if the ordinance had been posed as a means of preserving the cultural heritage of Rome since we all know that food and beverages can be destructive to stone, metal, wood, and other materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/24\/world\/europe\/snacking-at-the-roman-colosseum-prepare-to-pay-a-fine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in The New York Times (&#8220;Buon Appetito, but Not Next to the Monuments&#8220;, by Elisabetta Povoledo, October 24, 2012), this month Rome instituted a new municipal ordinance outlawing eating and drinking and camping in areas of &#8220;particular historic, artistic, architectonic and cultural value&#8221;. The ordinance has been met with great opposition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2012\/10\/25\/perhaps-it-should-be-posed-as-a-means-to-preserve-the-cultural-heritage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eating Near Monuments Banned, Italians in Uproar: Perhaps it should have been posed as a means to preserve the cultural heritage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":6810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}