{"id":55,"date":"2019-01-13T14:50:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T14:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/?p=55"},"modified":"2019-01-13T14:50:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T14:50:02","slug":"where-leather-silver-pottery-and-textiles-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Home barista for a lovely bundle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learning the art of the barter starts with having a sense of humor. You need to go in with a smile and speak of outrageous prices \u2014&nbsp;even try to sell your (girl)friends in exchange for a negotiated number of handwoven rugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could describe the labyrinthine soil paths winding back into the bowels of the Grand Medina. I could tell you about pungent spice stalls, glimmering jewelry, and silver light fixtures that cast their intricately patterned glow on colorful rugs woven by ancient Berber tribes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The open-air Berber marketplace is a completely foreign and entirely authentic world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For miles around, the dunes rolled like red-tinged waves in the sea. I had <a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/6aqEHmDb02\/\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-target=\"_blank\">ridden a camel<\/a>to the spot where I would gaze at a million stars that night, smiling at the fact I was <em>finally<\/em>somewhere I had dreamed about under the same stars thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning the art of the barter starts with having a sense of humor. You need to go in with a smile and speak of outrageous prices \u2014 even try to sell your (girl)friends in exchange for a negotiated number of handwoven rugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","entry-image--portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaysquare.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}