{"id":2217,"date":"2012-09-23T05:36:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T05:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2012-09-23T05:36:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T05:36:59","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-solitary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2217","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge:  Solitary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another photo from my father&#8217;s war album.\u00a0 Table Mountain in Cape Town looks like a good place to be solitary (unless you&#8217;re with troops on their way to war).<\/p>\n<p>This nurse wears the military uniform of Queensland nurses who joined up in 1940 and 1941 to accompany troops to the Middle East.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know her name but I hope someone sees the photo some day and recognises her.<\/p>\n<p>My father praised the nurses in his poetry.\u00a0 And when he returned home and married my mother, he wanted their first child, my sister, to be named after a particular nurse who had cared for him in the army hospital in Kantara near Cairo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/table_top_mountains_sth_africa_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2218\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/table_top_mountains_sth_africa_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/table_top_mountains_sth_africa_resized.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/table_top_mountains_sth_africa_resized-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/table_top_mountains_sth_africa_resized-768x451.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another photo from my father&#8217;s war album.\u00a0 Table Mountain in Cape Town looks like a good place to be solitary (unless you&#8217;re with troops on their way to war). This nurse wears the military uniform of Queensland nurses who joined up in 1940 and 1941 to accompany troops to the Middle East.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2217\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekly photo challenge:  Solitary&#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":[4,5,171,6,7,8,10,172],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwii","category-wwii-photos","tag-1940s","tag-215th-battalion","tag-aif-nurse","tag-black-white","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaweek2012","tag-table-mountain-cape-town"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","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=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}