{"id":1949,"date":"2011-08-09T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T17:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onmytodd.org\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2015-11-17T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:39:00","slug":"l%c9%99nk%c9%99ran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=1949","title":{"rendered":"L\u0259nk\u0259ran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s fit is gone and forgotten. ;) I&#8217;m hanging out in L\u0259nk\u0259ran for the time being, mostly to avoid as much of the Iranian (Muslim, really) month of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramadan\" class=\"external external_icon\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ramadan<\/a> as possible. Even though travelers (and non-Muslims, of course) are exempt from observing the fasting rules, restaurants are closed during the day and eating and drinking in public are frowned upon (if not worse). Azerbaijanis don&#8217;t seem to care about Ramadan too much.<\/p>\n<p>August 14 is the latest possible date of entry on my visa. Ramadan will end on August 29 this year, and my Iranian visa is valid for 20 days. I would like to witness at least the first day of the month following Ramadan, Shawwal, called Eid ul-Fitr. Eid ul-Fitr is a three-day holiday celebrating the completion of the one-month fasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s fit is gone and forgotten. ;) I&#8217;m hanging out in L\u0259nk\u0259ran for the time being, mostly to avoid as much of the Iranian (Muslim, really) month of Ramadan as possible. Even though travelers (and non-Muslims, of course) are exempt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=1949\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-the-caucasus-and-back","tag-azerbaijan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6890,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}