{"id":402,"date":"2013-03-03T05:03:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T12:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2013-03-03T17:01:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T00:01:48","slug":"402","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/archives\/402","title":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_1076.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-403\" alt=\"IMG_1076\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_1076-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_1076-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_1076-1024x575.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Esma is on a crusade for the perfect lamb meatball recipe to take home to her uncle\u2019s bistro in Manhattan and has purchased sacksful of aromatic spices at the market\u2014cloves and paprika, powdered cumin and beads of coriander, crescent-shaped fennel seeds and purple-black pepper with a brass grinder thrown in . . .<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven\u2019t written a short story for ages, and just sent one off for critique by: (1) a Christian teacher intimately familiar with Islam; (2) my sister, a poet; (3) an author of 75 books and editor of hundreds; and (4) my daughter, a trendy young reader the age of my character.<\/p>\n<p>Now, back to drafting my novel after a long hiatus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ISTANBUL Esma is on a crusade for the perfect lamb meatball recipe to take home to her uncle\u2019s bistro in Manhattan and has purchased sacksful of aromatic spices at the market\u2014cloves and paprika, powdered cumin and beads of coriander, crescent-shaped fennel seeds and purple-black pepper with a brass grinder thrown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}