{"id":4471,"date":"2013-07-19T15:33:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2018-08-27T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T10:39:45","slug":"ailsas-travel-photo-challenge-tilted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4471","title":{"rendered":"Ailsa&#8217;s travel photo challenge:  Tilted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feluccas are traditional motorless boats that have been used for transport on the Nile River since biblical times.\u00a0 From the photo below you&#8217;d have to agree that they are graceful whether their masts are tilted into the wind or tilted at rest on the beach.\u00a0 The design is simple, a small wooden boat with a few cushioned seats around the sides, a table in the middle, and sails made from cotton or other natural fibres.<\/p>\n<p>Today feluccas carry tourists and locals on peaceful pleasure boat trips along the Nile.\u00a0 This photo is from my father&#8217;s World War two album and was taken in 1941 or 1942.\u00a0 Aren&#8217;t the large creamy triangular sails ideal in black and white photography!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4473\" style=\"width: 685px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/19\/ailsas-travel-photo-challenge-tilted\/egyptian_sailboat\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4473\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4473\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/egyptian_sailboat.jpg?w=685\" alt=\"Felucca, Egypt, c1941\" width=\"685\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/egyptian_sailboat.jpg 2550w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/egyptian_sailboat-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/egyptian_sailboat-768x1147.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/egyptian_sailboat-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/egyptian_sailboat-1200x1793.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felucca, Egypt, c1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ailsa came up with this theme for a photo challenge.\u00a0 Check out an amazing tilted tree and other photos <a href=\"http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2013\/07\/19\/travel-theme-tilted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feluccas are traditional motorless boats that have been used for transport on the Nile River since biblical times.\u00a0 From the photo below you&#8217;d have to agree that they are graceful whether their masts are tilted into the wind or tilted at rest on the beach.\u00a0 The design is simple, a small wooden boat with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4471\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ailsa&#8217;s travel photo challenge:  Tilted&#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":[14],"tags":[5,6,39,30,427,7,8,226,155],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwii-photos","tag-215th-battalion","tag-black-white","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-felucca","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday2013","tag-wwii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","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=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11359,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/11359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}