{"id":58640,"date":"2012-11-08T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=58640"},"modified":"2023-07-26T12:07:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T09:07:55","slug":"istanbul-turkey-travel-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/11\/08\/istanbul-turkey-travel-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul, Turkey | Travel Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East \u00bb Turkey \u00bb Marmara \u00bb Istanbul \u00bb Sirkeci<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58643\" title=\"istanbul_mosque\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/istanbul_mosque.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/istanbul_mosque.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/istanbul_mosque-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>February 13th 2012<\/p>\n<p>First time in a Muslim country. Uncomfortable at first, then began to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>The food, people, sites&#8230;.all very interesting. Turkish people are very warm and friendly.<\/p>\n<p>First time I heard the call to pray, the hair on my neck stood up. The only time I&#8217;ve ever heard that before is in movies.<\/p>\n<p>Since you hear it five times a day, I quickly became used to it and actually enjoyed hearing it and knowing people were off to pray<\/p>\n<p>at the mosques.<\/p>\n<p>Stayed at the Sirkeci Konak. Great location, near all the big sites.<\/p>\n<p>via Istanbul, Turkey | Travel Blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East \u00bb Turkey \u00bb Marmara \u00bb Istanbul \u00bb Sirkeci February 13th 2012 First time in a Muslim country. Uncomfortable at first, then began to enjoy it. The food, people, sites&#8230;.all very interesting. Turkish people are very warm and friendly. First time I heard the call to pray, the hair on my neck stood up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":58643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-58640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-istanbul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58640","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=58640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}