{"id":9224,"date":"2018-10-02T15:31:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T14:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=9224"},"modified":"2018-10-02T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T14:31:24","slug":"a-day-at-the-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/10\/a-day-at-the-races\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day at the Races"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following the preview last week, we’ve added our Roman racetrack to the website<\/a>. I’ve been referring to it as a Hippodrome, but that’s the Greek term for the same thing. It’s based on the remains of the Roman circus in Jerash, Jordan<\/a> – this is quite a small one at 250m long, the Circus Maximus in Rome is almost three times the size ! It’s a one-piece resin casting which is roughly 10″ long by 3″ wide.<\/p>\n

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SSS-8115<\/a> – Roman Circus – \u00a39.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the preview last week, we’ve added our Roman racetrack to the website. I’ve been referring to it as a Hippodrome, but that’s the Greek term for the same thing. It’s based on the remains of the Roman circus in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-small-scale-scenery"],"views":10635,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/SSS-8115.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2oM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5555,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/small-temples-of-gods\/","url_meta":{"origin":9224,"position":0},"title":"Small Temples of Gods","author":"Tony","date":"July 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Part two of the Roman Buildings in our Small Scale Scenery range have landed today. 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