{"id":25848,"date":"2023-05-07T01:03:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T05:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=25848"},"modified":"2023-05-05T21:43:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T01:43:56","slug":"bare-ruind-choirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/bare-ruind-choirs\/","title":{"rendered":"bare ruin&#8217;d choirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25849\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Passchendaele1917.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25849\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25849\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Passchendaele1917-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The battle of Passchendaele in Belgium in 1917<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Anyone who studied Shakespeare will recognize the title of \u00a0this post as part of a line from one of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/45099\/sonnet-73-that-time-of-year-thou-mayst-in-me-behold\">sonnets<\/a> (#73). It is fitting to use it in a post noting the importance of photography and photographers in war-time settings.<\/p>\n<p>The image at left was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veterans.gc.ca\/eng\/remembrance\/wars-and-conflicts\/first-world-war\/battle-of-passchendaele\">taken at a famous Canadian battle<\/a> in Belgium during WW1. Films have been made of the WW1 conflict, poems written, books written, and plays produced. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to those brave souls who swapped a gun for a camera to record the events of the wars for future readers and viewers. You can see<a href=\"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/firstworldwar\/objects-and-photos\/photographs\/battles-and-fighting-photographs\/?target=2450\"> more images here<\/a> at our war museum.<\/p>\n<p>I had uncles and grandfathers in both world wars. One uncle was in the American army; the rest Canadian. Fortunately only a couple of more distant relatives died in those horrific \u00a0battles.<\/p>\n<p>Food for thought: War is brutal and continues to breakout &#8211; even today. Photography is an immense help in showing us just how terrible such conflicts are. Words and drawings alone cannot convey the impact upon us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Anyone who studied Shakespeare will recognize the title of \u00a0this post as part of a line from one of his sonnets (#73). It is fitting to use it in a post noting the importance of photography and photographers in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/bare-ruind-choirs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[60,129,220],"class_list":["post-25848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-archives","tag-museum","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25852,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25848\/revisions\/25852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}