{"id":2427,"date":"2018-10-28T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T11:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2018-10-28T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T11:04:48","slug":"that-old-brown-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2427","title":{"rendered":"That Old Brown Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unashamed on a significant milestone for me to have a Ralph McTell song title for today. We saw him at The Royal Welsh College of Music\u00a0in\u00a0Cardiff. What a wonderful concert hall. We also called in to see my Great Nephew Rupert who arrived at the beginning of September.\u00a0It was a delightful day and we came home glowing.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph was on the top of his game which is amazing considering his age, his catalogue of songs are wide ranging, thoughtful and sensitive. Yes the tears flowed\u00a0on a couple of songs especially\u00a0with the raw feelings of recent weeks (more about that at the end of the blog).<\/p>\n<p>I am currently trying to write a story for our tour next year on the River Severn, we already have bookings so need to get on with it! Actually we have got quite a bit of it ready.<\/p>\n<p>Sad day tomorrow in our village as we say Goodbye to our dear friend Robin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unashamed on a significant milestone for me to have a Ralph McTell song title for today. We saw him at The Royal Welsh College of Music\u00a0in\u00a0Cardiff. What a wonderful concert hall. We also called in to see my Great Nephew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2427\">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-2427","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-D9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","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=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}