{"id":10419,"date":"2014-01-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10419"},"modified":"2014-01-14T11:05:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:05:22","slug":"ticketing-at-the-coliseum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/ticketing-at-the-coliseum\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticketing at the Coliseum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/011414_1155_Ticketingat1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class><\/p>\n<p>According to the historians on Reddit, Romans couldn&#8217;t just go to Ticketmaster to purchase tickets to watch events at the Coliseum. Here&#8217;s what they did do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The tickets were free. They were given out in bulk by the organizer, and those who received them would further distribute them to those they wanted to show favour to.\n<li>There was tiered seating. The richer and more powerful you were the closer you got to sit to the action.\n<li>The tickets themselves were etched into broken shards of pottery called ostraca and had information on the section, row, and seat.\n<li>To prevent counterfeit tickets, shards from the same pot were used for each group of seats so that the tickets could be put together to re-form the pot.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the wider discussion about Coliseum events over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskHistorians\/comments\/1v4gd6\/how_did_they_do_ticketing_at_the_colosseum\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskHistorians\/comments\/1v4gd6\/how_did_they_do_ticketing_at_the_colosseum\/\">Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the historians on Reddit, Romans couldn&#8217;t just go to Ticketmaster to purchase tickets to watch events at the Coliseum. Here&#8217;s what they did do: The tickets were free. They were given out in bulk by the organizer, and those who received them would further distribute them to those they wanted to show favour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/011414_1155_Ticketingat1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10422,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions\/10422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}