{"id":1685,"date":"2016-10-06T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2016-10-06T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T11:45:20","slug":"girl-from-the-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Girl from the North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The song title for today has no link to the blog today but I&#8217;ve just been listening to it! I have at least 4 versions of it in my collection and I\u00a0love it as a song.<\/p>\n<p>I am furiously learning new stories for Gigs next week with mixed success. I usually find I need to try them out loud on a ride, the best way I find of embedding a story in my consciousness. I had better get out on the bike!<\/p>\n<p>It is a busy week ahead with quite a bit of travelling, sadly because of the distances involved \u00a0it won&#8217;t be on the bike!\u00a0\u00a0Sadly I have had to turn down a couple of Gigs because of clashes, if you need me for a Gig it is always a good idea to suggest a couple of dates.<\/p>\n<p>Finally had a lovely bird watch last week (on my own!) I saw a Hen Harrier\u00a0 a rarity for England because they are so persecuted by game keepers it is sad to see the way vested interests are taking on the RSPB over their outspokenness on this. I also saw a pair of busy Stonechats that always make me smile as they flutter upwards in a brisk wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song title for today has no link to the blog today but I&#8217;ve just been listening to it! I have at least 4 versions of it in my collection and I\u00a0love it as a song. I am furiously learning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-rb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}