{"id":114527,"date":"2023-10-25T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=114527"},"modified":"2023-10-25T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T12:45:10","slug":"rick-steves-europe-istanbuls-old-soul-lives-on-in-the-grand-bazaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=114527","title":{"rendered":"Rick Steves\u2019 Europe: Istanbul\u2019s old soul lives on in the Grand Bazaar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its heyday, this was the \u201cworld trade center\u201d for the entire Ottoman Empire \u2013 locked down and guarded by more than a hundred soldiers every night&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/travel\/rick-steves-europe-istanbul-old-soul-grand-bazaar-20231024-ky4pifiq5nahdpqtgnuj27expa-story.html#ed=rss_www.chicagotribune.com\/arcio\/rss\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its heyday, this was the \u201cworld trade center\u201d for the entire Ottoman Empire \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114527-rick-steves-europe-istanbuls-old-soul-lives-on-in-the-grand-bazaar-scaled.jpg",2560,1440,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114527-rick-steves-europe-istanbuls-old-soul-lives-on-in-the-grand-bazaar-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114527-rick-steves-europe-istanbuls-old-soul-lives-on-in-the-grand-bazaar-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114527-rick-steves-europe-istanbuls-old-soul-lives-on-in-the-grand-bazaar-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114527-rick-steves-europe-istanbuls-old-soul-lives-on-in-the-grand-bazaar-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114527-rick-steves-europe-istanbuls-old-soul-lives-on-in-the-grand-bazaar-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114527-rick-steves-europe-istanbuls-old-soul-lives-on-in-the-grand-bazaar-2048x1152.jpg",2048,1152,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114527-rick-steves-europe-istanbuls-old-soul-lives-on-in-the-grand-bazaar-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114527-rick-steves-europe-istanbuls-old-soul-lives-on-in-the-grand-bazaar-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114527-rick-steves-europe-istanbuls-old-soul-lives-on-in-the-grand-bazaar-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}