{"id":2080,"date":"2012-08-31T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2012-08-31T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T09:00:06","slug":"ailsas-travel-photography-curves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"Ailsa&#039;s travel photo challenge:  Curves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ailsa has just shown us some curves she captured in her travels:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/08\/31\/travel-theme-curves\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/08\/31\/travel-theme-curves\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now she&#8217;s challenging us to show off our own curves.\u00a0 Here are mine:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/r-c-church_heliopolis_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2082\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/r-c-church_heliopolis_resized.jpg\" height=\"663\" width=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/r-c-church_heliopolis_resized.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/r-c-church_heliopolis_resized-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/r-c-church_heliopolis_resized-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>La Basilique Notre Dame d&#8217;H\u00e9liopolis, or the Basilique Church, sits in the centre of Heliopolis, which at the beginning of the 20th century was a planned town built in the desert ten kilometres from the centre of Cairo by the Belgian Baron Empain.\u00a0 It&#8217;s now a suburb of Cairo.\u00a0 Alexandre Marcel, the church&#8217;s architect, was inspired by Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, designing a smaller version of the domed basilica to be the centre of the new town.\u00a0 The baron is buried beneath the church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ailsa has just shown us some curves she captured in her travels:\u00a0 http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/08\/31\/travel-theme-curves\/ Now she&#8217;s challenging us to show off our own curves.\u00a0 Here are mine: La Basilique Notre Dame d&#8217;H\u00e9liopolis, or the Basilique Church, sits in the centre of Heliopolis, which at the beginning of the 20th century was a planned town built in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2080\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ailsa&#039;s travel photo challenge:  Curves&#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":[14],"tags":[4,5,159,6,39,30,21,22,155],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwii-photos","tag-1940s","tag-215th-battalion","tag-basilique-church-heliopolis","tag-black-white","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2012","tag-wwii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","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=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}