{"id":6665,"date":"2012-10-31T08:21:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T12:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6665"},"modified":"2012-10-31T08:21:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T12:21:02","slug":"what-is-a-cataphile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/what-is-a-cataphile\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Cataphile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ParisUnderground2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6666 aligncenter\" title=\"ParisUnderground2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ParisUnderground2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ParisUnderground2.jpg 470w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ParisUnderground2-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beneath the city of Paris are miles and miles of sewer, tunnels, catacombs and rooms &#8216;big as ballrooms&#8217;. Will Hunt tells us that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the 1780s, when cemeteries were full, bones of around 6 million deceased were poured underground into pits.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Cataphiles&#8217; are those today who go underground to drink, smoke and party.<\/li>\n<li>The author managed to walk for 14 miles, North to South, entirely underground.<\/li>\n<li>Other underground users had helpfully stolen\u00a0road signs\u00a0and placed them in the tunnels, to signify what street lay above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more of the history of the Parisian underground, including the author&#8217;s own tour of the underground <a href=\"http:\/\/moreintelligentlife.com\/content\/places\/going-souterrain\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Economist <a href=\"http:\/\/moreintelligentlife.com\/content\/places\/going-souterrain\">Intelligent Life Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beneath the city of Paris are miles and miles of sewer, tunnels, catacombs and rooms &#8216;big as ballrooms&#8217;. Will Hunt tells us that In the 1780s, when cemeteries were full, bones of around 6 million deceased were poured underground into pits. &#8216;Cataphiles&#8217; are those today who go underground to drink, smoke and party. The author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6665","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\/2012\/10\/ParisUnderground2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665","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=6665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}