{"id":871,"date":"2011-03-16T18:04:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T23:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/?p=871"},"modified":"2011-03-16T18:04:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T23:04:25","slug":"making-ink-axum-ethiopia-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/making-ink-axum-ethiopia-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Ink, Axum, Ethiopia, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Making Ink, Axum, Ethiopia, 2009 by larkvi, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/5532921810\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5135\/5532921810_234737439d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Making Ink, Axum, Ethiopia, 2009\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melaka Tsehai burns the oil off of an addition of nug (an oilseed) to the carbonized grains, leaves, and earths that serve as the base for black ink. Various implments of the scribe&#8217;s crafts are on the ground beside him. Also, lest any one accuse me of having done the opposite&#8211;I have actually *de*-saturated his spectacular neon orange hat. A truly one-of-a-kind hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melaka Tsehai burns the oil off of an addition of nug (an oilseed) to the carbonized grains, leaves, and earths that serve as the base for black ink. Various implments of the scribe&#8217;s crafts are on the ground beside him. Also, lest any one accuse me of having done the opposite&#8211;I have actually *de*-saturated his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/making-ink-axum-ethiopia-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Ink, Axum, Ethiopia, 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,36,74,234,287,312,319,429,552,553,793,909,915],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-africa","tag-aksum","tag-axum","tag-cooking","tag-ethiopia","tag-fire","tag-flambe","tag-inkmaking","tag-melaka-tsehai","tag-melaka-tsehai-keflemaryam-abbay","tag-scribe","tag-tigray","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}