{"id":1420,"date":"2012-06-03T05:38:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T05:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2012-06-03T05:38:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T05:38:41","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge:  Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today my husband and I went to Old Parliament House in Canberra for lunch.\u00a0 We then played at being politicians in the old House of Representatives and acted as journalists recording an interview with an ex-Prime Minister (one of the activities for visitors).\u00a0 As we left the building I took this photo of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the opposite side of the street, an unofficial and often-in-the-news embassy that has existed since 1972 on the lawns in front of Old Parliament House which, in 1972, was the only Parliament House.\u00a0 A new, much much larger one has since been built on the hill\u00a0 behind it.\u00a0 The tents are out of view to the left and right but in the centre is the sacred fire which burns continually.\u00a0 The two people to the left of the sovereignty letters are on segways which can be hired to ride around the lake, a popular weekend pastime.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1424\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sovereignty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1424\" title=\"Sovereignty\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sovereignty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sovereignty.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sovereignty-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sovereignty-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacred fire and Sovereignty sign at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra, looking towards the War Memorial and Mt Ainslie, 3rd June 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my husband and I went to Old Parliament House in Canberra for lunch.\u00a0 We then played at being politicians in the old House of Representatives and acted as journalists recording an interview with an ex-Prime Minister (one of the activities for visitors).\u00a0 As we left the building I took this photo of the Aboriginal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=1420\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekly photo challenge:  Today&#8221;<\/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":[20],"tags":[104,105,7,8,10,106],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-photos","tag-aboriginal-tent-embassy","tag-canberra","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaweek2012","tag-weekly-photo-challenge-today"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}