{"id":4900,"date":"2009-09-26T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/cheap-hotel-near-leaning-tower-of-pisa-pisa-italy\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T18:32:10","slug":"what-is-the-use-of-the-leaning-tower-of-pisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=4900","title":{"rendered":"What is the use of the Leaning Tower of Pisa ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Leaning_tower_of_Pisa_AbcPlanet.com.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9682\" title=\"Leaning_tower_of_Pisa_AbcPlanet.com\" src=\"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Leaning_tower_of_Pisa_AbcPlanet.com-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Leaning_tower_of_Pisa_AbcPlanet.com\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Leaning Tower of Pisa (<em>Torre pendente di Pisa<\/em>) is the free-standing <strong>campanile (<\/strong><strong>bell tower) of the cathedral of Pisa, <\/strong>one of many works of art and architecture in the city&#8217;s <em>Piazza del Duomo<\/em>, also known as <em>Piazza dei Miracoli<\/em> (Square of Miracles), to the north of the old town center. Intended to stand vertically, the tower began leaning soon after the onset of construction in 1173 due to a poorly laid foundation and loose substrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Torre pendente di Pisa) is the free-standing campanile (bell tower) of the cathedral of Pisa, one of many works of art and architecture in the city&#8217;s Piazza del Duomo, also known as Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles), to the north of the old town center. Intended to stand vertically, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,485],"tags":[11,486,487,488],"class_list":["post-4900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-campaniles","tag-italy","tag-piazza-dei-miracoli","tag-pisa","tag-the-leaning-tower-of-pisa","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900","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=4900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}