{"id":53456,"date":"2012-05-11T07:43:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T04:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=53456"},"modified":"2014-01-07T16:44:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T14:44:57","slug":"rene-fijten-sketches-topkapi-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/05\/11\/rene-fijten-sketches-topkapi-in-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"rene fijten sketches: Topkapi in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top sketch is of the Topkapi palace; the famous palace of the Sultan and his thousand wife&#8217;s. It&#8217;s a labyrinth of buildings and courtyards, I made this sketch in one of the less crowded ones. I had problems with the paint, I was standing in the burning sun (pretty hot for Spring), and the paint dried quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Below the view from the 1st floor gallery of the Hagia Sophia, one of the most impressive buildings I know. You feel the weight of the centuries on your shoulders when walking through this (original Roman empire) building.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53458\" title=\"topkapi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/topkapi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/topkapi.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/topkapi-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Boven een schets van het Topkapi paleis, onder een schets van de preekstoel (of hoe heet zoiets in de Islam) vanaf de omloop in de Hagia Sofia.<\/p>\n<p>via rene fijten sketches: Topkapi in Istanbul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top sketch is of the Topkapi palace; the famous palace of the Sultan and his thousand wife&#8217;s. It&#8217;s a labyrinth of buildings and courtyards, I made this sketch in one of the less crowded ones. I had problems with the paint, I was standing in the burning sun (pretty hot for Spring), and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":53458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[4795],"class_list":["post-53456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-topkapi-palace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}