{"id":2778,"date":"2019-10-21T15:28:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2019-10-21T15:28:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:28:40","slug":"the-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2778","title":{"rendered":"The Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chosen Luka Bloom&#8217;s song The Ride for today&#8217;s blog (he is a folk\/rock singer and brother to Christy Moore) . Only recently found the song and hits a chord with me bit like that wonderfully surreal \u00a0book &#8220;The Third Policeman&#8221; !<\/p>\n<p>I cycled a decent distance (36 miles all round)\u00a0to Story Tell at Cromhall. Lovely little village school and I was made very welcome. The ride was wet this morning and then back into a stiff wind. Unusually for me all the stories I told today were mine! A couple of them developed another layer with the Telling especially &#8220;The Book Worm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Went a cello recital last night given by Ruth Spargo (daughter of one my pals) and all proceeds went to Farms for City Children. Lovely evening in Framilode Church an ideal setting!)<\/p>\n<p>Watched the mighty Hatters on Saturday demolish Bristol City with some excellent football which was a pleasant surprise, Talking sport disappointed that Japan were knocked out of the Rugby World Cup because they were wonderful to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chosen Luka Bloom&#8217;s song The Ride for today&#8217;s blog (he is a folk\/rock singer and brother to Christy Moore) . Only recently found the song and hits a chord with me bit like that wonderfully surreal \u00a0book &#8220;The Third Policeman&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2778\">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-2778","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-IO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","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=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}