{"id":2621,"date":"2019-05-07T08:43:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T08:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2019-05-07T08:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T08:43:52","slug":"bullfinch-wild-garlic-and-bluebells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2621","title":{"rendered":"Bullfinch, Wild Garlic and Bluebells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those people who are getting sick of football posts this is a short blog but a different topic. I had a super ride yesterday through the beautiful Gloucestershire countryside and it&#8217;s many contrasts. The Vale to start with gradually climbing up through the woods where the smell from the wild garlic was intoxicating. Buzzards floating on thermals and Kestrels hovering were a pleasing accompaniment.\u00a0Shimmering carpets of Bluebells one of my favourite flowers were seen frequently. The views on the tops were clear so jagged Malvern was easily visible. What a wonderful county to live in! \u00a0\u00a0It was cold for May had my coat on!<\/p>\n<p>Just finished one of my stories I am hoping to put into an anthology connected with Christmas and World Book Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those people who are getting sick of football posts this is a short blog but a different topic. I had a super ride yesterday through the beautiful Gloucestershire countryside and it&#8217;s many contrasts. The Vale to start with gradually climbing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2621\">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-2621","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-Gh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","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=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}