{"id":7256,"date":"2018-11-01T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T04:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2018-12-25T17:51:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T22:51:19","slug":"image-of-the-month-kel-tagelmust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=7256","title":{"rendered":"Image of the month: Kel Tagelmust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=7257\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7257\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7257\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/18-11-01.jpg\" alt=\"18-11-01\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/18-11-01.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/18-11-01-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/18-11-01-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Tuareg noble of the Sahara, exact\u00adly as I remem\u00adber such men.&nbsp;They are occa\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adly referred to as<em> kel tagel\u00admust&nbsp;<\/em>(veiled peo\u00adple) because of the head\u00adgear and robe dyed with shim\u00admer\u00ading indi\u00adgo.&nbsp;This gar\u00adment is fine-tuned for the Sahara\u2019s vio\u00adlent sand\u00adstorms, blis\u00adter\u00ading sun, wild swings in tem\u00adper\u00ada\u00adture, and is designed to con\u00adserve pre\u00adcious body mois\u00adture.&nbsp;Per\u00adhaps it\u2019s the inspi\u00adra\u00adtion for the \u201cstill\u00adsuit\u201d in Frank Her\u00adbert\u2019s <em>Dune<\/em>.&nbsp;The sev\u00aden trib\u00adal con\u00adfed\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions of the Tuareg always seemed to me a much more plau\u00adsi\u00adble mod\u00adel for Her\u00adbert\u2019s sci\u00adence fic\u00adtion clas\u00adsic than the Badawi of Ara\u00adbia, and the his\u00adto\u00adry of the Sahara and Maghrib have episodes that par\u00adal\u00adlel the sto\u00adry of <em>Dune<\/em>.<br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tuareg noble of the Sahara, exact\u00adly as I remem\u00adber such men.&nbsp;They are occa\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adly referred to as kel tagel\u00admust&nbsp;(veiled peo\u00adple) because of the head\u00adgear and robe dyed with shim\u00admer\u00ading indi\u00adgo.&nbsp;This gar\u00adment is fine-tuned for the Sahara\u2019s vio\u00adlent sand\u00adstorms, blis\u00adter\u00ading&nbsp;sun,&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=7256\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1494],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-ai-blog-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9928,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions\/9928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}