{"id":252,"date":"2012-10-25T15:28:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2012-11-19T19:46:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T19:46:50","slug":"half-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Half Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strange feeling I have now not quite being sure when half-term is after it dominated my plans for so long! Despite the persistent drizzle I have had an enjoyable week. I am about to go up to the canal hopefully to photograph a <strong>&#8220;murmuration<\/strong>&#8221; of starlings, this is when they make their wonderful patterns in the sky. Saw it last night just as we were going out, it is a real wildlife spectacular. I am hoping we get this show regularly over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>We went to see Show of Hands last night at the Roses Theatre Tewkesbury. Fantastic performance, they always set high standards and one more raised the bar!\u00a0\u00a0We went with Bernie (my gig mate) and had a curry before the gig. Steve Knightly (part of the band) was having his curry before the performance, I did ask him would it help his singing!<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday we saw David being \u00a0awarded a letter of commendation at\u00a0Somerset Cricket Ground from the Chief Fire Officer of the Devon and Somerset Brigade\u00a0for his work. We were proud parents beaming at the back!<\/p>\n<p>Finally I have just been interviewed by Richard Joyce for Stroud FM,\u00a0because I am a Luton season ticket holder who lives close to Forest Green about\u00a0the game coming up on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange feeling I have now not quite being sure when half-term is after it dominated my plans for so long! Despite the persistent drizzle I have had an enjoyable week. I am about to go up to the canal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=252\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","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-44","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}