{"id":2524,"date":"2019-02-10T16:42:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T16:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2019-02-10T16:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T16:42:39","slug":"smoke-on-the-water-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2524","title":{"rendered":"Smoke on the Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure if I have had Deep Purple song for a blog title before, so a rather tenuous link because I have just\u00a0been doing some\u00a0pond clearing. Not sure if there was any smoke! Needed to do it before the frogs arrive to spawn. It was cold!<\/p>\n<p>Tried out &#8220;The Golden Bird&#8221; story at Wick Court last Thursday. I&#8217;ve only ever told it once before a couple of years ago.\u00a0Feel it has potential to develop so I will work on it. Currently looking for a new story for primary school middle years.<\/p>\n<p>I am managing to get some decent miles in my legs on the\u00a0bike (just under 400 miles for January making my best start to a year).<\/p>\n<p>Thoroughly enjoyed playing\u00a0football with many youngsters last Tuesday-my touch was gradually returning!<\/p>\n<p>Finally it was a joy watching the Mighty Hatters yesterday fingers crossed this continues. It\u00a0is always a bit of a roller coaster watching the Hatters\u00a0over the years.\u00a0You learn to savour the good moments because there have been plenty of dark days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure if I have had Deep Purple song for a blog title before, so a rather tenuous link because I have just\u00a0been doing some\u00a0pond clearing. Not sure if there was any smoke! Needed to do it before the frogs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2524\">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-2524","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-EI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","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=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}