{"id":2089,"date":"2017-11-17T16:17:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2017-11-17T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:17:56","slug":"wipers-times-birds-and-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2089","title":{"rendered":"Wipers Times, Birds  and Bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A busy week on the entertainment and social front. Also been involved in three bird surveys this week, one was my usual at Wick Court with the children.\u00a0The children\u00a0saw a record number of species including Golden Plover and Lapwing from our Hide overlooking the river. The other two surveys was my monthly one in Frampton and a Winter Survey for the BTO in Cam. Highlight being a Short Eared Owl having a dust up with a Buzzard in Frampton.<\/p>\n<p>We went to the Everyman\u00a0this week to see the Wipers Times\u00a0a\u00a0delightful story about producing a newspaper that\u00a0poked fun at authority and\u00a0especially the idiotic top brass running the war. (It was set in Flanders during WW1.) It was\u00a0written by Ian Hislop.<\/p>\n<p>I also went to Cheltenham yesterday to see Ned Boulting one of ITVs presenters of the\u00a0Tour de France. A sideways look at Bikes, bike people and racing! Good fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy week on the entertainment and social front. Also been involved in three bird surveys this week, one was my usual at Wick Court with the children.\u00a0The children\u00a0saw a record number of species including Golden Plover and Lapwing from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2089\">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-2089","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-xH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","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=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}