{"id":353,"date":"2019-05-17T18:58:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T18:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mher.khalatyan.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2019-05-20T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T15:50:08","slug":"locks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mher.khalatyan.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Locks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea of the lock probably appeared independently in different parts of the world. The ancient Chinese had simple locks that could be undone with a sickle-shaped or hook-like key. Locks like this existed in China at least 4,000 years ago, and probably earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people of ancient Egypt also protected their possessions with locks during the same period. These were slightly more sophisticated than the Chinese locks. Egyptian locks contained a series of pins of different lengths that corresponded to pegs that stuck out of the side of the key. Only a key with pegs of the right length would fit a particular lock. Unlike modern locks, which are made of hard metal, Egyptian locks were made of wood.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of the lock probably appeared independently in different parts of the world. The ancient Chinese had simple locks that could be undone with a sickle-shaped or hook-like key. Locks like this existed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mher.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mher.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mher.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mher.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mher.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mher.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/mher.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mher.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mher.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mher.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mher.khalatyan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}