{"id":844,"date":"2008-11-14T14:15:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T12:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2008-11-14T14:19:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T12:19:56","slug":"turkish-lamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/14\/turkish-lamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Lamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/lamps_big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/lamps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/lamps_big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">click to enlarge<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taken in a touristy shop along Istanbul&#8217;s famous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C4%B0stiklal_Avenue\" target=\"_blank\">Istiklal Caddesi<\/a> (Independence Avenue), this photo features the famous Turkish glass mosaic lamps. I&#8217;m not sure about the origins of them, whether they&#8217;re Middle Eastern, Central Asian or from other regions or just from Turkey, but they&#8217;re undeniably associated with Turkey. Every one of them is very unique and very beautiful and they make a great object for photography, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>I see there are quite a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6zqxlc\" target=\"_blank\">mosaic lamps on Amazon<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lifewithbg-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, what lamps do you prefer? The mosaic lamps there or the ones above? Though the ones on Amazon are true works of art, I prefer the more exotic ones.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Can anyone tell me more about the origins of these lamps? Can anyone tell me how to take these lamps on a long busride or airflight without breaking them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you\u2019re not yet subscribed to updates from this blog and you&#8217;d like to be, do so now either <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/basbasbas\" target=\"_blank\">by RSS<\/a> or through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1139007\" target=\"_blank\">email updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click to enlarge Taken in a touristy shop along Istanbul&#8217;s famous Istiklal Caddesi (Independence Avenue), this photo features the famous Turkish glass mosaic lamps. I&#8217;m not sure about the origins of them, whether they&#8217;re Middle Eastern, Central Asian or from other regions or just from Turkey, but they&#8217;re undeniably associated with Turkey. Every one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,12,18],"tags":[1020,712,331,500,711,613,451,1027,1030,362],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-life","category-photography","category-travel","tag-art","tag-glass-mosaic","tag-istanbul","tag-istiklal-caddesi","tag-lamps","tag-middle-east","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-travel","tag-turkey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}