{"id":241684,"date":"2025-07-28T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=241684"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:01:59","slug":"upper-class-patmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/upper-class-patmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper class Patmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"593\"><em><strong>by Christos Zabounis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"593\">A well-presented lady is dining alone at \u201cTrechantiri.\u201d It\u2019s early\u20147:30 p.m.\u2014and the usual line of eager patrons has yet to form. She orders six large prawns and becomes absorbed in her phone. Her name is Merve, and she has come to Patmos seeking spiritual and professional inspiration. Though Muslim, she visited the Cave of the Apocalypse in the morning to pray. Afterwards, she climbed to the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian and wandered through the medieval alleys of Chora, a setting she describes as \u201cUmberto Eco-esque.\u201d Merve is one of the leading executives in the Turkish television industry. At the same time, she is preparing two series for Netflix and three international film productions, with transatlantic emails interrupting our conversations. At the \u201cAktis\u201d hotel, she greets half the \u201cpopulation\u201d there\u2014fellow Turkish nationals from the upper echelons of society. They are all elegantly dressed, well-mannered, and multilingual. \u201cWhy did you choose Patmos for your holidays?\u201d I ask a bespectacled gentleman with the look of an intellectual. \u201cIt is one of the major centers of Christianity, along with Jerusalem, Mount Sinai, and the Vatican,\u201d he explains in flawless French. \u201cIt is for upper class souls,\u201d adds his wife, in the language of Shakespeare. \u201cIt has a mysterious energy that either draws you in or repels you,\u201d she continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christos Zabounis A well-presented lady is dining alone at \u201cTrechantiri.\u201d It\u2019s early\u20147:30 p.m.\u2014and the usual line of eager patrons has yet to form. She orders six large prawns and becomes absorbed in her phone. Her name is Merve, and she has come to Patmos seeking spiritual and professional inspiration. Though Muslim, she visited the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":241681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18496],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241686,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241684\/revisions\/241686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}