{"id":1703,"date":"2016-10-24T11:35:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T11:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2016-10-24T20:16:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:16:39","slug":"a-whiter-shade-of-pale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":"A Whiter Shade of Pale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been to the Tip getting rid of a collection of old paint tins so that gave me today&#8217;s title. I had also just watched Procol Harum on T.V. singing the above song;so it all comes together! A great song and\u00a0one of the\u00a0evocative sounds \u00a0of my formative years.<\/p>\n<p>For once a fortnight\u00a0ahead with no Story Telling so it means the voice gets a rest! We are off to St Petersburg later this week instead! Really looking forward to this my first visit to Russia. So if you are trying to get hold of me for a booking I may not be able to get back to you for a few days.<\/p>\n<p>I am revisiting one of my stories I wrote about ten years ago. It was originally written for a school project based on Degas &#8220;Beach Scene&#8221; painting that is currently in the National Gallery. I am hoping that\u00a0although written for school I can redo it for an adult audience. I have a Gig for adults next month so hopefully I can add it to the stories I hope to tell.<\/p>\n<p>Had a\u00a0great ride yesterday with one of my pals Peter.\u00a0It is a tradition that we have coffee and cake. Well the cup of coffee I had you could have drowned in it was such a large cup! The cake was\u00a0gigantic and you needed full climbing equipment to tackle it.<\/p>\n<p>What a fantastic Test Match in Bangladesh. Talk about ebb and flow.\u00a0You don&#8217;t get that in one day games. I actually felt sorry for Bangladesh not be able to win. Ben Stokes is a colossus of cricketer!<\/p>\n<p>Finally good to see Autumn Watch is coming from one of our favourite places the Arne Reserve in Dorset. We usually visit once a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been to the Tip getting rid of a collection of old paint tins so that gave me today&#8217;s title. I had also just watched Procol Harum on T.V. singing the above song;so it all comes together! A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1703\">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-1703","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-rt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","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=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}