{"id":10303,"date":"2010-05-01T10:51:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T10:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=10303"},"modified":"2010-05-01T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T10:51:06","slug":"who-invented-the-bikini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=10303","title":{"rendered":"Who invented the bikini ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Bikini-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10304\" title=\"Bikini\" src=\"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Bikini-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bikini\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The <strong>Romans<\/strong>, probably. In Villa Romana del Casale, a Roman villa (4th century) located about 5 km outside the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily, southern Italy, was excavated a mosaic on the floor of the room dubbed the &#8220;Chamber of the Ten Maidens&#8221; (<em>Sala delle Dieci Ragazze<\/em>). Informally called &#8220;the bikini girls&#8221;, the maidens appear in a mosaic artwork which scholars named Coronation of the Winner. The young women perform sports including weight-lifting, discus throwing, running and ball-games. The Villa Romana del Casale contains the richest, largest and most complex collection of Roman mosaics in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Romans, probably. In Villa Romana del Casale, a Roman villa (4th century) located about 5 km outside the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily, southern Italy, was excavated a mosaic on the floor of the room dubbed the &#8220;Chamber of the Ten Maidens&#8221; (Sala delle Dieci Ragazze). Informally called &#8220;the bikini girls&#8221;, the maidens appear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1166],"tags":[11,1302,1303,1304],"class_list":["post-10303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archeology","tag-italy","tag-piazza-armerina","tag-sicily","tag-villa-romana-del-casale","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}