{"id":508,"date":"2016-07-16T17:39:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T22:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2016-06-25T17:41:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T22:41:41","slug":"cotton-farming-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Farming in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During our drive to Priene, Miletus and Didyma we passed a number of cotton farms. Since my Dad is a retired cotton farmer, I was fascinated to see the farming methods. Tiny little fields, and small tractors and trailers to haul cotton to the gin. We didn&#8217;t see a gin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/turkeycotton\/IMG_1400.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-510\" title=\"IMG_1400\" src=\"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/turkeycotton\/IMG_1400-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/turkeycotton\/IMG_1405.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-497\" title=\"IMG_1405\" src=\"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/turkeycotton\/IMG_1405-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/turkeycotton\/CAM00193.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-494\" title=\"CAM00193\" src=\"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/turkeycotton\/CAM00193-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_495\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/turkeycotton\/IMG_1407.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-495\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-495 size-thumbnail\" title=\"IMG_1407\" src=\"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/turkeycotton\/IMG_1407-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sorry for the bad photo \u2013 taken from inside the vehicle.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We never saw a pickup, just trailers ranging in size from little bitty to the size in the photo above, pulling trailers with whatever they were hauling.<\/p>\n<p>The day after this trip, we took a train from Selcuk to Denizli &#8211; this was a fascinating glimpse at farming practices. We saw cotton strippers as well as hand harvesting. Ancient and modern practices side-by-side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During our drive to Priene, Miletus and Didyma we passed a number of cotton farms. Since my Dad is a retired cotton farmer, I was fascinated to see the farming methods. Tiny little fields, and small tractors and trailers to haul cotton to the gin. We didn&#8217;t see a gin. We never saw a pickup, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}