{"id":2742,"date":"2019-09-11T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T09:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2019-09-11T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T09:48:31","slug":"back-in-the-saddle-a-different-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2742","title":{"rendered":"Back in the Saddle (a different one!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No not bikes today but Story Telling. After a welcome break I am now out and about carrying my stories to different audiences. I am working in a Care Home this afternoon telling stories. I have done a few over the last year (I seem to be on the circuit) and have enjoyed doing them. Tomorrow it will be good to get back\u00a0to my\u00a0residency at Wick Court in the marvellous Round House (I ought to post a picture of me in it in the near future).<\/p>\n<p>Trying to write regularly \u00a0now (have a few projects on the go, Two Severn Bores, a story based in Gloucester and a possible story for a competition).<\/p>\n<p>Finally I was back to volunteering at Wick Court yesterday taking young people from Prior Weston School near the Barbican Bird Watching. We were rewarded with two active Spotted Flycatchers (a first for us with children) my first sighting of the year\u00a0of one of my favourite birds. We used to have one nest in the garden but sadly these birds are struggling for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No not bikes today but Story Telling. After a welcome break I am now out and about carrying my stories to different audiences. I am working in a Care Home this afternoon telling stories. I have done a few over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2742\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2742","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-Ie","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742","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=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}