{"id":1788,"date":"2018-01-19T19:54:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T00:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2018-01-19T19:54:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T00:54:05","slug":"sofra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/visual-dictionary\/sofra\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1789\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sofra-bremen-album.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1789\" class=\"wp-image-1789 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sofra-bremen-album-300x245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sofra-bremen-album-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sofra-bremen-album-768x626.png 768w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sofra-bremen-album-250x204.png 250w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sofra-bremen-album-150x122.png 150w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sofra-bremen-album.png 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The black circle under the tray is a sofra. Source: The Bremen album, 1574<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A round leather or cloth laid down to catch crumbs while eating&#8211;essential in a world where any civilized floor was carpeted. Often a sofra had a drawstring around the edge so it could be picked up and carried outside to be shook out without dropping crumbs in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Low tables didn&#8217;t come into use until the late 16th century. Before then, the sofra was the only &#8220;tabletop&#8221; people dined from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A round leather or cloth laid down to catch crumbs while eating&#8211;essential in a world where any civilized floor was carpeted. Often a sofra had a drawstring around the edge so it could be picked up and carried outside to be shook out without dropping crumbs in the process. Low\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/visual-dictionary\/sofra\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-dictionary","tag-tableware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}