{"id":842,"date":"2012-03-24T05:53:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T05:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2012-03-24T05:53:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T05:53:26","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge:  Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve looked at a lot of photos of mosques in the Western Desert &#8211; the expansive desert in Libya, just over Egypt&#8217;s western border &#8211; where I suspect this photo was taken, but couldn&#8217;t see one that matched this mosque.\u00a0 The wall seems to have had its window blown out, and as sometimes happens in photography, something damaged and ugly can be used to make a beautiful image.\u00a0 A photo of the mosque on its own would not tell as good a story as it does framed by this arched gap.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_844\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-844\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/view_through_arch_blogsize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-844\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/view_through_arch_blogsize.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/view_through_arch_blogsize.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/view_through_arch_blogsize-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/view_through_arch_blogsize-768x528.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Western Desert, Egypt\/Libya, 1941\/42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve looked at a lot of photos of mosques in the Western Desert &#8211; the expansive desert in Libya, just over Egypt&#8217;s western border &#8211; where I suspect this photo was taken, but couldn&#8217;t see one that matched this mosque.\u00a0 The wall seems to have had its window blown out, and as sometimes happens in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=842\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekly photo challenge:  Through&#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":[4,5,6,30,71,7,8,10,72],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwii","category-wwii-photos","tag-1940s","tag-215th-battalion","tag-black-white","tag-egypt","tag-mosque","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaweek2012","tag-weekly-photo-challenge-through"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}