{"id":524,"date":"2012-02-17T02:27:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T02:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2012-02-17T02:27:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T02:27:28","slug":"february-photo-challenge-17th-feb-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"February photo challenge:  17th Feb, Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This clock tower is in Beirut.\u00a0 The caption my father wrote under the photo gave the town of Tripoli as the tower&#8217;s home, but a search for it on Google images showed me where it really is.\u00a0 It was built in 1934 and survived the troubles in Lebanon in the 1970s and 80s.\u00a0 Four new clock faces with Roman numerals have replaced the faces you see here.\u00a0 The tower is no longer encircled by concrete, but flower beds.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian troops trained in Palestine on their way to Egypt and Libya.\u00a0 In the war album there are a number of photographs from Lebanon, indicating they must have had rec leave in Beirut.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-525\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/beirut_clock_tower_blogsize.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-525 \" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/beirut_clock_tower_blogsize.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/beirut_clock_tower_blogsize.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/beirut_clock_tower_blogsize-187x300.jpeg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clock Tower, Beirut, 1941\/42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This clock tower is in Beirut.\u00a0 The caption my father wrote under the photo gave the town of Tripoli as the tower&#8217;s home, but a search for it on Google images showed me where it really is.\u00a0 It was built in 1934 and survived the troubles in Lebanon in the 1970s and 80s.\u00a0 Four new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;February photo challenge:  17th Feb, Time&#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":[4,5,53,6,47,7,8,21,22],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwii","category-wwii-photos","tag-1940s","tag-215th-battalion","tag-beirut","tag-black-white","tag-february-photo-a-day","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}