{"id":98881213,"date":"2011-03-03T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/turkey-travel-portrait-the-rumeli-fortress\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T04:34:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:34:29","slug":"turkey-travel-portrait-the-rumeli-fortress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/turkey-travel-portrait-the-rumeli-fortress\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Travel Portrait: The Rumeli Fortress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The enormous Rumeli Fortress, located in Istanbul along the Bospherus, was constructed under the order of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror in 1452 to prevent ships and aid from reaching Byzantine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The structure took nearly 1,000 masons and 2,000 workers four months to build.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, like many structures in Turkey, the historic building is used for modern purposes; the fortress often hosts spring and summer concerts in an amphitheater setting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Flickr:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/archer10\/2215822271\/sizes\/z\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Archer10 (Dennis) <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The enormous Rumeli Fortress, located in Istanbul along the Bospherus, was constructed under the order of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror in 1452 to prevent ships and aid from reaching Byzantine. &nbsp; The structure took nearly 1,000 masons and 2,000 workers four months to build. &nbsp; Today, like many structures in Turkey, the historic building is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-tips-intel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98898337,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881213\/revisions\/98898337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}