{"id":3061,"date":"2020-04-08T14:37:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2020-04-08T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:37:50","slug":"once-upon-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3061","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Time&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a roll with themes for the quiz-I was worried I was drying up. Today&#8217;s title will give you a clue for the quiz at the end of the blog.<\/p>\n<p>Had a wonderful ride for today&#8217;s exercise got me thinking what is the collective noun for Primroses possibly a profusion? Saw a few Bluebells as well I hope we will still be allowed out when they really explode everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Garden Bird update-Chiffchaff, two Sparrowhawks up high possibly male and female and House Martin briefly over.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s small, tiny miniscule little answers were<\/p>\n<p>a) <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Vatican City<\/strong><\/span> is the smallest country\u00a0\u00a0 b)<strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> Mercury<\/span> <\/strong>is the smallest planet\u00a0\u00a0 c) <strong><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">Rhode Island<\/span> <\/strong>the smallest US State\u00a0 d) <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Bee Humming Bird<\/span> <\/strong>is the smallest bird it is only found on Cuba&#8211;you had to get Bee because there are many species of Hummingbird !\u00a0 e) <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Dwarf Sperm Whale<\/span> <\/strong>is the smallest Whale (I had to look that one up!)<\/p>\n<p>To mark our first\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Beer and Books<\/strong> <\/span>virtual meeting tonight I thought we ought to have a literary theme! Literary themes may \u00a0pop up from time to time so today&#8217;s quiz is all on Children&#8217;s Literature I don&#8217;t think it is that hard!<\/p>\n<p>a) What did the <em><strong>Very Hungry Caterpillar<\/strong> <\/em>eat on Friday?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) Who illustrated the <em><strong>Gruffalo?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> c) Who befriended<em><strong> Stig of the Dump?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 d) What is the name of <em><strong>War Horse<\/strong> <\/em>and who was his human friend? e) Who did the <em><strong>Iron Man<\/strong> by Ted Hughes <\/em>have to fight?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a roll with themes for the quiz-I was worried I was drying up. Today&#8217;s title will give you a clue for the quiz at the end of the blog. Had a wonderful ride for today&#8217;s exercise got me thinking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3061\">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-3061","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-Nn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","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=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}