{"id":2135,"date":"2012-09-15T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2012-09-15T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T12:40:13","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-everyday-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2135","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge:  Everyday life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyday life for a soldier in Egypt in 1941 included some pretty unpostable activities:\u00a0 rifle practice, wrecking tanks, sinking ships, covering\u00a0 the bodies of dead comrades in the desert.\u00a0 However, the activity in this photo looks fairly harmless.\u00a0 My father captioned it &#8216;Shufty&#8217;, which comes from an Arabic word for &#8216;a look&#8217;, as in &#8216;take a shufty at this&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Three curious things I&#8217;ve considered:\u00a0 What are the tubular projections behind the men?\u00a0 What is the Egyptian boy doing?\u00a0 Why is one man naked while all others are clothed?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2138\" style=\"width: 469px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shufty_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   wp-image-2138\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shufty_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shufty_resized.jpg 670w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shufty_resized-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shufty, Egypt, 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyday life for a soldier in Egypt in 1941 included some pretty unpostable activities:\u00a0 rifle practice, wrecking tanks, sinking ships, covering\u00a0 the bodies of dead comrades in the desert.\u00a0 However, the activity in this photo looks fairly harmless.\u00a0 My father captioned it &#8216;Shufty&#8217;, which comes from an Arabic word for &#8216;a look&#8217;, as in &#8216;take &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekly photo challenge:  Everyday life&#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":[4,5,6,30,7,8,10,165,166],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwii","category-wwii-photos","tag-1940s","tag-215th-battalion","tag-black-white","tag-egypt","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaweek2012","tag-shufty","tag-weekly-photo-challenge-everyday-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","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=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}