{"id":27608,"date":"2022-01-24T16:18:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T15:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27608"},"modified":"2022-01-24T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T15:19:29","slug":"have-you-ever-heard-of-mardin-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27608","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever heard of Mardin in Turkey?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t until last night when I had dinner in a Turkish restaurant called <a href=\"https:\/\/sumakrestaurants.com\/about\/\">&#8220;Sumak&#8221;<\/a> (the name of a spice) in the Crouch End district of north London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The walls of the restaurant are adorned with four large pictures of different cities: Paris, Rome, London, and one I did not recognise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was told that it is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mardin\">Mardin<\/a>, a city in the south-east of Turkey close to the border with Syria. It has a majority Kurdish population and special architectural features. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t until last night when I had dinner in a Turkish restaurant called &#8220;Sumak&#8221; (the name of a spice) in the Crouch End district of north London. The walls of the restaurant are adorned with four large pictures of different cities: Paris, Rome, London, and one I did not recognise. I was told that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27608"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27612,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27608\/revisions\/27612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}