{"id":50,"date":"2012-11-14T10:07:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T10:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/?p=50"},"modified":"2012-11-14T10:07:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T10:07:53","slug":"east-meets-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/2012\/11\/14\/east-meets-west\/","title":{"rendered":"East meets West"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The real beauty of Constantinople is in its water. Water everywhere, clear blue and shimmering; away to the far south the serene face of the placid Sea of Marmora, the Archipelago leading into it, and beyond the Dardanelles forming the channel to the Grecian seas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This immensity of water is wonderful: coming from one knows not where, disappearing one knows not how, ever kissing the shores as it entwines itself in every view, and lending such a strange and marvellous grace to all it touches&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A watery mystery mingling with everyday life, magical and strange! What scenes does it unfold! What memories does it awaken! Mythic, poetic,actual!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Diary of an Idle Woman in Constantinople, Frances Elliot (1892)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_51\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/istanbul1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51\" title=\"The Bosphorus\" src=\"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/istanbul1.jpg\" alt=\"The Bosphorus\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/istanbul1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/istanbul1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/istanbul1-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asia meets Europe<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real beauty of Constantinople is in its water. Water everywhere, clear blue and shimmering; away to the far south the serene face of the placid Sea of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}