{"id":6515,"date":"2014-11-03T03:40:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T16:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=6515"},"modified":"2017-09-11T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T10:36:52","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=6515","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge:  Descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Descent:\u00a0 a downwards movement, bad for a fragile object falling or a fragile person tripping.\u00a0 A good thing if you descend from an airless mountaintop or from worthy ancestors.\u00a0 It&#8217;s especially useful if you need an inexpensive system of water delivery, for even in the desert there&#8217;s the free pressure of gravity.\u00a0 The photo here is taken in a desert during World War Two, one of the many photos my father brought back from the Middle East.\u00a0 It&#8217;s captioned simply &#8220;Gravity Tank&#8221;, taken in North Africa, probably Egypt, in about 1941.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6516\" style=\"width: 527px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6516\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/gravity_tank.jpg?w=674\" alt=\"Gravity tank, North Africa, c1941\" width=\"527\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gravity_tank.jpg 2548w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gravity_tank-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gravity_tank-768x1166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gravity_tank-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gravity_tank-1200x1823.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gravity tank, North Africa, c1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prompted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailypost.wordpress.com\/dp_photo_challenge\/descent\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress photo challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Descent:\u00a0 a downwards movement, bad for a fragile object falling or a fragile person tripping.\u00a0 A good thing if you descend from an airless mountaintop or from worthy ancestors.\u00a0 It&#8217;s especially useful if you need an inexpensive system of water delivery, for even in the desert there&#8217;s the free pressure of gravity.\u00a0 The photo here &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=6515\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekly photo challenge:  Descent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[4,6,30,671,41,7,8,21,568,672,1077],"class_list":["post-6515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwii","category-wwii-photos","tag-1940s","tag-black-white","tag-egypt","tag-gravity-water-tank","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday","tag-postaday-2014","tag-weekly-photo-challenge-descent","tag-wwii-gravity-water-tank"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515","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=6515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9593,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions\/9593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}