{"id":3019,"date":"2013-01-24T16:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.12sided.com\/blog\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2014-09-05T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T13:01:08","slug":"if-you-are-going-to-istanbul-and-need-a-rug-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=3019","title":{"rendered":"If you are going to Istanbul and need a rug guy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salmonbay.net\/istanbul.html\" title=\"Istanbul Portfolio, Salmon Bay Photography\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/salmonbay.net\/img\/tk01.jpg\" alt=\"blue mosque, sunrise\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine will soon be traveling to Istanbul. The mention of travel immediately took me back to my visit there now over a decade ago. Amazing city. The sights, the smells, the history. I developed an appreciation for oriental carpets during an earlier trip to Morocco. I ended up with 6. That&#8217;s another story. In Istanbul, I was traveling with a buddy and he was interested in a small carpet. We looked around over town. Nothing worked for him and the salesmen were on the pushy side. Later that day we found <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/haremcarpets.com\" title=\"Harem Carpets\" target=\"_blank\">Harem Carpets in Arasta Bazaar<\/a><\/strong>. We chatted with Mustafa, one of the owners, for a bit and made an appointment to return the following morning.<\/p>\n<p>Great experience and beautiful pieces. They take a tremendous amount of pride knowing the history and origin of each piece. If you are in Istanbul check out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/haremcarpets.com\" title=\"Harem Carpets\" target=\"_blank\">Harem Carpets<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine will soon be traveling to Istanbul. The mention of travel immediately took me back to my visit there now over a decade ago. Amazing city. The sights, the smells, the history. I developed an appreciation for oriental carpets during an earlier trip to Morocco. I ended&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[69,160,177,353],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-carpets","tag-harem-carpets","tag-istanbul","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}