{"id":80643,"date":"2018-07-15T05:42:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T12:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/on-this-day-15-july-1799"},"modified":"2018-07-15T05:42:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T12:42:48","slug":"on-this-day-15-july-1799","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/on-this-day-15-july-1799","title":{"rendered":"On this day: 15 July 1799"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/on-this-day-15-july-1799.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this day: 15 July 1799, as French soldiers were strengthening the defences of Fort Julien, just north-east of the Egyptian port of Rosetta (Rashid), Lt Pierre-Fran\u00e7ois Bouchard spotted a slab of stone with inscriptions on one side that his soldiers had uncovered. This slab was named the Rosetta Stone, and a few hundred years later, the name would be carried by ESA\u2019s Rosetta Mission, hoping to unlock the secrets of a comet\u2026 More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/research\/collection_online\/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=117631&partId=1\">http:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/research\/collection_online\/coll\u20261&amp;partId=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EuropeanSpaceHistory\/photos\/a.202408279912943.1073741828.166359846851120\/1020997374720692\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EuropeanSpaceHistory\/photos\/a.20240...7374720692<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day: 15 July 1799, as French soldiers were strengthening the defences of Fort Julien, just north-east of the Egyptian port of Rosetta (Rashid), Lt Pierre-Fran\u00e7ois Bouchard spotted a slab of stone with inscriptions on one side that his soldiers had uncovered. This slab was named the Rosetta Stone, and a few hundred years [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}