{"id":4621,"date":"2014-06-25T14:52:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T13:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2014-07-08T05:56:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T04:56:22","slug":"the-monastery-of-pendik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/?p=4621","title":{"rendered":"The Monastery of Pendik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4618\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/?p=5871\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4618\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4618\" title=\"pendik-manastir-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pendik-manastir-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The road bridge with a tiny section of masonry visible underneath\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pendik-manastir-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pendik-manastir-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The road bridge with a tiny section of masonry visible underneath<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The TAY website is dedicated to recording the destruction of Turkey\u2019s archaeological treasures and makes melancholy reading. One of its less cheery articles concerns the stonework in Pendik which was investigated in 1973-75, identified as a Byzantine monastery and promptly buried beneath a new road bridge. Not a lot here now (40.891269,29.238836). When that column base disappears, it will just be a pile of rubble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4619\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/?p=5874\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4619\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4619\" title=\"pendik-manastir-23\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pendik-manastir-23-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The remains of the dig in the 1970s\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pendik-manastir-23-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pendik-manastir-23-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of the dig in the 1970s<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4620\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/?p=5877\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4620\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4620\" title=\"pendik-manastir-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pendik-manastir-3-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Column base\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pendik-manastir-3-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pendik-manastir-3-1024x651.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Column base<\/p><\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freetellafriend.com\/tell\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.enormousfish.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D4621&title=The+Monastery+of+Pendik\" onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/www.freetellafriend.com\/tell\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.enormousfish.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D4621&title=The+Monastery+of+Pendik', 'freetellafriend', 'scrollbars=1,menubar=0,width=617,height=530,resizable=1,toolbar=0,location=0,status=0,screenX=210,screenY=100,left=210,top=100'); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share This Post\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/tell-a-friend\/button.gif\" style=\"width:127px;height:16px;border:0px;\" alt=\"Share This Post\" title=\"Share This Post\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TAY website is dedicated to recording the destruction of Turkey\u2019s archaeological treasures and makes melancholy reading. One of its less cheery articles concerns the stonework in Pendik which was investigated in 1973-75, identified as a Byzantine monastery and promptly buried beneath a new road bridge. Not a lot here now (40.891269,29.238836). When that column [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5880,"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions\/5880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}