{"id":2473,"date":"2012-11-03T11:35:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T11:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2012-11-03T11:35:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T11:35:37","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-geometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2473","title":{"rendered":"Geometry:  Andalusian Garden, Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Nile flows through Cairo it is divided in two for a short space by Gezira Island.\u00a0 And on this island there&#8217;s a public green space with a geometric layout called the Andalusian Garden.\u00a0 It was designed by the architect Mahmoud Zulfiqar Bey in 1929 as a gift to his wife, and was originally used as a roller skating rink by members of the royal family.\u00a0 In 1935 it was opened to the public, and in 1941 when my father was in Cairo during the war he visited this Moorish garden.\u00a0 The park is now protected by a heritage classification.\u00a0 Unfortunately the pool in the photo is now dry, but the terraces are still decorated with coloured mosaics which are not evident in this black and white photo, but photos on <a href=\"http:\/\/nomad4now.com\/articles-egypt\/cairo-charm-andalusia-gardens\/\" target=\"_blank\">this blog site<\/a> show the beautiful colours of the tiles and the excellent design of the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Ahmad Omar for telling me the name of this garden.\u00a0 The photo is from my father&#8217;s collection which he brought back from Egypt in 1942.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2475\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/helwan_gardens3_cropped1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2475\" title=\"Helwan_Gardens3_cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/helwan_gardens3_cropped1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/helwan_gardens3_cropped1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/helwan_gardens3_cropped1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/helwan_gardens3_cropped1-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andalusian Garden, Gezira Island, Cairo, Egypt, 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Nile flows through Cairo it is divided in two for a short space by Gezira Island.\u00a0 And on this island there&#8217;s a public green space with a geometric layout called the Andalusian Garden.\u00a0 It was designed by the architect Mahmoud Zulfiqar Bey in 1929 as a gift to his wife, and was originally &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Geometry:  Andalusian Garden, Cairo&#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":[4,5,187,6,39,30,188,7,8,10,189],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwii","category-wwii-photos","tag-1940s","tag-215th-battalion","tag-andalusian-garden-cairo","tag-black-white","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-geometry","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaweek2012","tag-terraced-garden"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","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=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}