{"id":797,"date":"2011-06-19T08:15:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T13:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=797"},"modified":"2011-06-19T08:15:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T13:15:32","slug":"istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not like Rome. Fact. Maybe it was a function of where I was staying, maybe it was being sick, maybe it was having just left Tunisia. There was a bit of culture shock after a month in Africa. Seeing bare shoulders and other uncovered&#8230;parts&#8230;.was actually uncomfortable. Possibly also sick of all the spaghetti and pizza. Oh, and honestly, how many gelato places do you really need Rome.<\/p>\n<p>I felt like cattle in vatican museum.<\/p>\n<p>Enough about Rome. I&#8217;m in Istanbul now and I have met up with some of my friends from Tunisia. Were staying in the old city known as Sultanhmet, and its gorgeous. We had dinner last night on a rooftop terrace overlooking the Haghia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. ( I would post a picture of that but i&#8217;m being lazy). After we sat down at a sidewalk cafe for some nargeli and drinks. Some locals from the hostel took us out to the clubs and I dont believe we returned till sunrise. We&#8217;re all hurting a bit today.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, check out these F&#8217;n camels<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/files\/2011\/06\/248318_222568771095468_100000270392961_892968_4794419_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-798\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/files\/2011\/06\/248318_222568771095468_100000270392961_892968_4794419_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/248318_222568771095468_100000270392961_892968_4794419_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/248318_222568771095468_100000270392961_892968_4794419_n-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/248318_222568771095468_100000270392961_892968_4794419_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not like Rome. Fact. Maybe it was a function of where I was staying, maybe it was being sick, maybe it was having just left Tunisia. There was a bit of culture shock after a month in Africa. Seeing bare shoulders and other uncovered&#8230;parts&#8230;.was actually uncomfortable. Possibly also sick of all the spaghetti &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=797\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}