{"id":592,"date":"2012-02-21T00:08:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T00:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2012-02-21T00:08:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T00:08:46","slug":"february-photo-challenge-21st-feb-fave-photo-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"February photo challenge:  21st Feb, Fave photo of me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rodin&#8217;s <em>Burghers of Calai<\/em>s (<em>Les Bourgeois de Calais<\/em>, Auguste Rodin, 1889) in the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Australia here in Canberra is my absolute all-time favourite sculpture.\u00a0 For me, the burghers can make a bad day better.\u00a0 And a good day ticklish.<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes come to the sculpture garden just to sit and write.\u00a0 Behind these gum trees there&#8217;s a lake and beneath them are bushes where blue fairy wrens jump and scrummage on the ground around the benches.\u00a0 Magic.\u00a0 I stop at Rodin&#8217;s burghers on every visit and think about the action and life he sculpted into inanimate rock.\u00a0 This is not &#8216;still life&#8217; like most sculpture.\u00a0 I love that about the French.<\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken a few winters ago.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-593\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/favephotoofme_blogsize.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-593 \" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/favephotoofme_blogsize.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/favephotoofme_blogsize.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/favephotoofme_blogsize-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burghers of Calais, Auguste Rodin, National Gallery of Australia Sculpture Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodin&#8217;s Burghers of Calais (Les Bourgeois de Calais, Auguste Rodin, 1889) in the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Australia here in Canberra is my absolute all-time favourite sculpture.\u00a0 For me, the burghers can make a bad day better.\u00a0 And a good day ticklish. I sometimes come to the sculpture garden just to sit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=592\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;February photo challenge:  21st Feb, Fave photo of me&#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":[20],"tags":[47,41,7,8,21,22,57,58],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-photos","tag-february-photo-a-day","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2012","tag-rodin","tag-sculpture-garden-nga"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","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=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}