{"id":2692,"date":"2012-12-02T06:46:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T06:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2012-12-02T06:46:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T06:46:19","slug":"ailsas-travel-photo-challenge-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2692","title":{"rendered":"Ailsa&#039;s travel photo challenge:  Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ailsa wants to warm up by looking at photos of hot things:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/11\/30\/travel-theme-hot\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/11\/30\/travel-theme-hot\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here in Canberra the temperatures have been in the high 30s lately, but rather than shooting this summery city for the photo challenge, I&#8217;ll draw on my father&#8217;s pictorial resources from Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>A photo of a kind of swimming competition in the river &#8211;\u00a0 it looks a bit painful, and I&#8217;m not sure how you win:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2694\" style=\"width: 421px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/02\/ailsas-travel-photo-challenge-hot\/swimming_inland_resized\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2694 \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/swimming_inland_resized.jpg?w=702\" height=\"600\" width=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/swimming_inland_resized.jpg 702w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/swimming_inland_resized-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swimming inland, Egypt, 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And a drawing of soldiers under the blazing desert sun, probably up to no good:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2696\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2696\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/02\/ailsas-travel-photo-challenge-hot\/desertsoldierscartoon2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2696\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2696 \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/desertsoldierscartoon2.jpg?w=1000\" height=\"479\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/desertsoldierscartoon2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/desertsoldierscartoon2-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/desertsoldierscartoon2-768x613.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawing by Ronald Ernest Bruce, 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ailsa wants to warm up by looking at photos of hot things:\u00a0 http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/11\/30\/travel-theme-hot\/ Here in Canberra the temperatures have been in the high 30s lately, but rather than shooting this summery city for the photo challenge, I&#8217;ll draw on my father&#8217;s pictorial resources from Egypt. A photo of a kind of swimming competition in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2692\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ailsa&#039;s travel photo challenge:  Hot&#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":[13,34,14],"tags":[4,5,26,6,30,7,8,21,22],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwii","category-wwii-drawings","category-wwii-photos","tag-1940s","tag-215th-battalion","tag-art","tag-black-white","tag-egypt","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","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=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}