{"id":1802,"date":"2012-07-14T08:26:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T08:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2012-07-14T08:26:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T08:26:20","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge:  Dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly photo challenge instruction is &#8220;Share a photo that makes you dream&#8221;.\u00a0 When I look at news footage of Syria these days, I wonder if it will ever again look like it does in this photo from 1942.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s dream it can be this peaceful some day.\u00a0 Soon.<\/p>\n<p>The 2\/15th battalion of the Australian Imperial Forces, which my father was a part of, went to Syria in January 1942 for several months of frontier garrison duty.\u00a0 I have several photos of the region from his album, but the Biblical tone of this one makes it the best.\u00a0 Click it to see the detail.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1804\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/syria2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1804\" title=\"Syria\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/syria2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/syria2.jpg 3960w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/syria2-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/syria2-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/syria2-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/syria2-1200x788.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Syria 1942<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly photo challenge instruction is &#8220;Share a photo that makes you dream&#8221;.\u00a0 When I look at news footage of Syria these days, I wonder if it will ever again look like it does in this photo from 1942.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s dream it can be this peaceful some day.\u00a0 Soon. The 2\/15th battalion of the Australian &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=1802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekly photo challenge:  Dreaming&#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":[13,14],"tags":[4,5,6,7,8,10,11,130],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwii","category-wwii-photos","tag-1940s","tag-215th-battalion","tag-black-white","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaweek2012","tag-syria","tag-weekly-photo-challenge-dreaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","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=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}