{"id":114,"date":"2010-10-10T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/layingfallow.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2012-09-13T15:40:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T20:40:05","slug":"a-shave-and-a-haircut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"A Shave and a Haircut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the long hiatus on the blog.\u00a0 We just said goodbye to my parents, yesterday, after a wonderful two week visit.\u00a0 With all our touring and hanging out it took twice as long to get a comic out.\u00a0 I had the false impression that our long bus rides would be great times to draw and write but I found myself on the verge on motion sickness for the first time in my life during those trips.\u00a0 Maybe it is the height of the seats, and the aggressiveness of the drivers, that got to me.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 Working on our kitchen table, back in Ortahasir, was familiar and easy, especially since everyone slept in as a result of all our adventures.<\/p>\n<p>During my parent&#8217;s stay we gave my dad his birthday present, a trip to a Turkish barber.\u00a0 It may not seem like a great present but my father came home beaming and couldn&#8217;t stop talking about it.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t stop talking about it after my first visit, either.\u00a0 Men from surrounding villages come to ours for their haircuts so the barbers are particularly good here.\u00a0 I&#8217;d suggest booking a flight, and a room in our home, and experiencing it yourself.\u00a0 Unfortunately it is a male-only experience.\u00a0 For the women, Jocelyn will take you to Mirella in Urgup.\u00a0\u00a0 That&#8217;s a whole other story she&#8217;ll have to tell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-10-10-a-shave-and-a-haircut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-385\" title=\"2010-10-10-a-shave-and-a-haircut\" src=\"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-10-10-a-shave-and-a-haircut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-10-10-a-shave-and-a-haircut.jpg 768w, https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-10-10-a-shave-and-a-haircut-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-10-10-a-shave-and-a-haircut-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-10-10-a-shave-and-a-haircut-605x904.jpg 605w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the long hiatus on the blog.\u00a0 We just said goodbye to my parents, yesterday, after a wonderful two week visit.\u00a0 With all our touring and hanging out it took twice as long to get a comic out.\u00a0 I had the false impression that our long bus rides would be great times to draw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,21,8,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layingfallow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}