{"id":2664,"date":"2014-04-22T05:16:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T05:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/22\/monday-moment-hagia-sophia-istanbul-turkey-one-giant-step\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T23:55:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T23:55:27","slug":"monday-moment-hagia-sophia-istanbul-turkey-one-giant-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/22\/monday-moment-hagia-sophia-istanbul-turkey-one-giant-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Moment: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Aya-Sophia-Istanbul-1.jpg\"><img alt='aya-sophia-istanbul-1-1138579' src='https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Aya-Sophia-Istanbul-1-1138579.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have never felt so close to religion as when in Turkey. The call to prayer wafts over the landscape on a strict schedule in tune with the sun; five times a day the melodic urging beckons the faithful to pray. There is a quiet adherence to centuries old tradition as markets and tea shops empty and people make their way to the local mosque to start their ablutions and prayer ritual.<\/p>\n<p>The mosques are nothing short of stunning. Every single one of them. Built as testaments to faith they transform prayer into personal messages; an undeniable beauty accompanies the process and I was often, probably rudely, transfixed as I watched.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img alt='pixel-9293796' src='https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pixel-9293796.png' \/><\/a> <b>Click<\/b> <b>to join the OneGiantStep Facebook conversation!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never felt so close to religion as when in Turkey. The call to prayer wafts over the landscape on a strict schedule in tune with the sun; five times a day the melodic urging beckons the faithful to pray. There is a quiet adherence to centuries old tradition as markets and tea shops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26005,"href":"https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/26005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one-giant-step.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}