{"id":2799,"date":"2012-12-15T05:29:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T05:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2018-08-25T15:49:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T05:49:21","slug":"ailsas-travel-photo-challenge-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2799","title":{"rendered":"Ailsa&#8217;s travel photo challenge:  Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone is going out in style in what must be a Christian funeral, the carriage decked with a cross and angels, moving past a mosque!\u00a0 This is the first mosque built in Heliopolis, the present-day outer suburb of Cairo which the Belgian Baron Empain built out of the desert in the early 1900s.\u00a0 The mosque was built in 1911 in Mosque Square (Midan al-Gami).<\/p>\n<p>The photo shows a pretty blend of Islamic and Christian &#8216;architectural&#8217; embellishment, particularly the rooftops, the parts closest to heaven&#8230;\u00a0 I also couldn&#8217;t help noticing the Egyptian religious tolerance of the 1940s.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6851\" style=\"width: 3595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?attachment_id=6851\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6851 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/egyptian_funeral.jpg\" alt=\"Egyptian funeral, c1941\" width=\"3595\" height=\"2710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/egyptian_funeral.jpg 3595w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/egyptian_funeral-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/egyptian_funeral-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/egyptian_funeral-1024x772.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/egyptian_funeral-1200x905.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Egyptian funeral, c1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thanks to Ailsa for proposing this transportation theme for a photo challenge this week.\u00a0 Everyone should see her fantastic shots taken from plane windows:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/12\/14\/travel-theme-transportation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/12\/14\/travel-theme-transportation\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone is going out in style in what must be a Christian funeral, the carriage decked with a cross and angels, moving past a mosque!\u00a0 This is the first mosque built in Heliopolis, the present-day outer suburb of Cairo which the Belgian Baron Empain built out of the desert in the early 1900s.\u00a0 The mosque &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=2799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ailsa&#8217;s travel photo challenge:  Transportation&#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":[4,5,6,30,208,209,210,211,7,8,21,22,212],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwii","category-wwii-photos","tag-1940s","tag-215th-battalion","tag-black-white","tag-egypt","tag-egyptian-funeral","tag-first-mosque-heliopolis","tag-going-out-in-style","tag-midan-al-gami-heliopolis","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2012","tag-transportation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","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=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11288,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/11288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}