{"id":23,"date":"2006-06-12T09:10:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T13:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/thrace\/2006\/06\/12\/the-beginning-of-the-end-fez-wise\/"},"modified":"2006-06-16T04:17:22","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T08:17:22","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end-fez-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/thrace\/2006\/06\/12\/the-beginning-of-the-end-fez-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning of the End, Fez-wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve heard of Kastamonu as the city where Atat\u00fcrk lauched his Great Hat Reform of &#8217;25. No? Well, shows what you know. There&#8217;s a statue in the\u00a0town center\u00a0of the man holding a fedora, the Hat Of The Future. Fezzes out!<\/p>\n<p>This was just the town I was looking for at this stage in the trip. Travelling around a country like this you find yourself jonesing for the ideal of the Real Turkey. Frankly, I don&#8217;t even know what this even\u00a0means: the Real Turkey&#8211;I certainly haven&#8217;t seen any Fake Turkeys recently&#8211;but the qu\u0131xotic concept still nags at the traveller.<\/p>\n<p>Kastamonu, a mid-sized town with no tourist sights to speak of, seems to fit the role as well as possible, and while at a different time of the trip I may have wanted to breeze right through (there&#8217;s nothing to see, after all) I now find it strangely satisfying, and we are lingering here for another night.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the gumption waxes and wanes, sometimes hourly. Three weeks is a long trip, and sometimes I feel ready to come home. But sometimes not: this afternoon we took a taxi to a village outside of town to see\u00a0this astounding\u00a0fourteenth century wooden mosque housed inside of an unassuming exterior. Luckily, the <em>imam<\/em> was outside laying down a sidewalk with his gardener buddy so he was able to let us in. This all served to recharge the gumption, and now I&#8217;m back in fine spirits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve heard of Kastamonu as the city where Atat\u00fcrk lauched his Great Hat Reform of &#8217;25. No? Well, shows what you know. There&#8217;s a statue in the\u00a0town center\u00a0of the man holding a fedora, the Hat Of The Future. Fezzes out! This was just the town I was looking for at this stage in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/thrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/thrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/thrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/thrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/thrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/thrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/thrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/thrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/thrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}