{"id":2388,"date":"2012-10-19T23:36:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T23:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2012-10-19T23:36:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T23:36:06","slug":"ailsas-travel-photo-challenge-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2388","title":{"rendered":"Ailsa&#039;s travel photo challenge:  Couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For her photo challenge this week, Ailsa showed us some couples captured on camera:\u00a0 a couple hand-in-hand on the beach and various other couples, human and non-human.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/10\/19\/travel-theme-couples\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/10\/19\/travel-theme-couples\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When my father was in the Middle East he was surrounded by men and nurses.\u00a0 Mostly men.\u00a0 Sometimes they were soldiers in a war;\u00a0 sometimes they were larrikins.\u00a0 (The Australian Oxford Dictionary&#8217;s definition of larrikin is &#8216;a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political conventions&#8217;.)<\/p>\n<p>These soldiers look like they&#8217;re on a roof.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t tell me they&#8217;re acting as Bathsheba bathing on the roof and King David wooing her with his flute!\u00a0 Well, then, they&#8217;re imitating one of history&#8217;s most famous couples.\u00a0 I seem to remember that Bathsheba was beautiful&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rons_friend_in_bath_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2389\" title=\"Ron's_friend_in_bath_resized\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rons_friend_in_bath_resized.jpg\" height=\"653\" width=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rons_friend_in_bath_resized.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rons_friend_in_bath_resized-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rons_friend_in_bath_resized-768x523.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>For her photo challenge this week, Ailsa showed us some couples captured on camera:\u00a0 a couple hand-in-hand on the beach and various other couples, human and non-human.\u00a0 http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/10\/19\/travel-theme-couples\/ When my father was in the Middle East he was surrounded by men and nurses.\u00a0 Mostly men.\u00a0 Sometimes they were soldiers in a war;\u00a0 sometimes they were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2388\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ailsa&#039;s travel photo challenge:  Couples&#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":[4,5,6,30,182,7,8,21,22],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwii","category-wwii-photos","tag-1940s","tag-215th-battalion","tag-black-white","tag-egypt","tag-larrikins","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","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=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}