{"id":5063,"date":"2013-10-10T03:07:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T03:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2013-10-10T03:07:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T03:07:49","slug":"pairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=5063","title":{"rendered":"Pairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marianne from <a href=\"http:\/\/eastofmalaga.net\/2013\/10\/01\/cbbh-photo-challenge-pairs\/\" target=\"_blank\">East of M\u00e1laga<\/a> challenges us this October to find photos of pairs.\u00a0 She defines it: <b>A pair is a set of two things used together or regarded as a unit.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>These lighthouse feet made me stop and look twice &#8211; the rust in its reddishness turns deterioration into art.\u00a0 The lighthouse is set on a big concrete block so its feet were at my eye level as I wandered around it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5064\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/10\/pairs\/pair-lighthouse-feet\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5064\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5064\" alt=\"Lighthouse feet, Port-Vendres, France\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pair-lighthouse-feet.jpg?w=750\" width=\"750\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pair-lighthouse-feet.jpg 3072w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pair-lighthouse-feet-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pair-lighthouse-feet-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pair-lighthouse-feet-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pair-lighthouse-feet-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lighthouse feet, Port-Vendres, France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And a pair of nights ago I photographed a pair of bottles and two pairs of eyes on a pair of sons.\u00a0 We were in a restaurant provocatively named <em>Me and Mrs Jones<\/em> (that&#8217;s not a pair).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5067\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/10\/pairs\/pair-of-bottles\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5067\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5067\" alt=\"Bottles of Canberra water in 'Me and Mrs Jones' restaurant, Canberra\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pair-of-bottles.jpg?w=750\" width=\"750\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pair-of-bottles.jpg 5099w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pair-of-bottles-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pair-of-bottles-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pair-of-bottles-1024x733.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pair-of-bottles-1200x859.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bottles of Canberra water in &#8216;Me and Mrs Jones&#8217; restaurant, Canberra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marianne likes us to spread the blog love, so I&#8217;ll tell you I loved a poem I read <a href=\"http:\/\/emilyspoetryblog.com\/2013\/09\/24\/i-carry-your-heart-by-e-e-cummings\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 In fact I printed it out and stuck it on my fridge.<\/p>\n<p>And I read a blog about amazing historical embroidery at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, including a video demonstrating how women kept their arms out of the way of crinoline skirts, <a href=\"http:\/\/plays-with-needles.blogspot.com.au\/2013\/10\/gilt-and-silk.html\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marianne from East of M\u00e1laga challenges us this October to find photos of pairs.\u00a0 She defines it: A pair is a set of two things used together or regarded as a unit. These lighthouse feet made me stop and look twice &#8211; the rust in its reddishness turns deterioration into art.\u00a0 The lighthouse is set &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=5063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pairs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[490,7,8,21,226],"class_list":["post-5063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-photos","tag-lighthouse-port-vendres","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063","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=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}