{"id":13503,"date":"2011-07-06T21:40:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T01:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13503"},"modified":"2011-07-06T21:40:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T01:40:32","slug":"istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islam is the predominant religion in Turkey yet it is illegal for women to cover their faces in public buildings, universities and libraries. A female professor of history I spoke with was adamant that, in a civilised society, we need to see each other\u2019s face when we communicate.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/mrtoad\/instanbul\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" onclick=\"return false;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/mrtoad\/image\/136204987.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Blue Mosque:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" onclick=\"return false;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/mrtoad\/image\/136204985.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" onclick=\"return false;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/mrtoad\/image\/136205032.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>St. Sophia&#8217;s: once a church, then a mosque, now a museum:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" onclick=\"return false;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/mrtoad\/image\/136205039.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Grand Bazaar:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" onclick=\"return false;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/mrtoad\/image\/136205013.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" onclick=\"return false;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/mrtoad\/image\/136204991.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Bosphorous Bridge:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" onclick=\"return false;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/mrtoad\/image\/136205028.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islam is the predominant religion in Turkey yet it is illegal for women to cover their faces in public buildings, universities and libraries. A female professor of history I spoke with was adamant that, in a civilised society, we need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/istanbul\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[912,2222],"class_list":["post-13503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-istanbul","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}