{"id":64657,"date":"2026-04-19T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64657"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:14:00","slug":"rat-proof-grain-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64657","title":{"rendered":"Rat-Proof Grain Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rat-Proof_Grain_Store1.jpg\" alt=\"Rat-Proof Grain Store\" width=\"352\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rat-Proof_Grain_Store1.jpg 352w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rat-Proof_Grain_Store1-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rat-Proof_Grain_Store2.jpg\" alt=\"Rat-Proof Grain Store 2\" width=\"354\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rat-Proof_Grain_Store2.jpg 354w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rat-Proof_Grain_Store2-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Romans had no rat traps or poisons so they had to protect their grain stores from rats through other methods or risk starving. They built elevated grain stores with no rat accessible entry points.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Body Text --><\/p>\n<p>Building floor a metre off the ground<br \/>\nSmooth stone pillar supports<br \/>\nWith overhang impossible to climb around<br \/>\nNo low level entry points<br \/>\nVentilation via small openings at top of wall<br \/>\nHuman access via removable ramps<\/p>\n<p>to view the video:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/1CnTxu1Buf\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/1CnTxu1Buf\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Romans had no rat traps or poisons so they had to protect their grain stores from rats through other methods or risk starving. They built elevated grain stores with no rat accessible entry points. Building floor a metre off the ground Smooth stone pillar supports With overhang impossible to climb around No low level &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rat-Proof Grain Store&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64660,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64657\/revisions\/64660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}