{"id":1890,"date":"2017-05-01T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T09:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2017-05-01T09:28:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T09:28:42","slug":"sugar-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1890","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going back in time for today&#8217;s title from Neil Young, a slightly tenuous link! Yesterday I was cycling just over the border in Wales doing two climbs the Tumble and Llangynidr Mountain (it is a long story why I was in Wales and not Yorkshire as originally planned but I will gloss over that). This is part of my training for the Pyrenees at the end of this month. Picture below is me reaching the summit of Llangynidr.<\/p>\n<p>We were in Lancashire for a couple of days taking in one of our favourite bird reserves at Leighton Moss and I also did a football match at Accrington Stanley while Clare did a National Trust property nearby. \u00a0Leighton Moss didn&#8217;t disappoint with great views of Marsh Harrier. We also spent the Saturday morning in the town of Clitheroe, where I was in seventh heaven pottering in a super second hand bookshop. \u00a0The football was good a wonderful away win courtesy of a comedy own goal that I would of been proud of in my day. I was once known as Own Goal for some impressive strikes against my own team!<\/p>\n<p>I<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170430_130452_resized-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1892\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=1892\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170430_130452_resized-1.jpg?fit=1032%2C580&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1032,580\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20170430_130452_resized\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170430_130452_resized-1.jpg?fit=584%2C329&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1892\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170430_130452_resized-1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170430_130452_resized-1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170430_130452_resized-1.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170430_130452_resized-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170430_130452_resized-1.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170430_130452_resized-1.jpg?w=1032&amp;ssl=1 1032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going back in time for today&#8217;s title from Neil Young, a slightly tenuous link! Yesterday I was cycling just over the border in Wales doing two climbs the Tumble and Llangynidr Mountain (it is a long story why I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1890\">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-1890","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-uu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","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=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}