{"id":3067,"date":"2020-04-10T16:50:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2020-04-10T16:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:50:33","slug":"nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3067","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing this blog often prompts hidden\/lost \u00a0memories and that was certainly true of a couple of days ago when I set questions on children&#8217;s books. It reminded me of my happy days as a primary school class teacher. It was one of the most precious times both for me and the children was the class book we were reading. I vividly remember children desperate for the next chapter of a story. That was obviously where the Story Teller started to evolve. Many times I have met ex pupils who waxed lyrically about those times. Recently met someone from my first ever class!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s exercise ride was delightful because of the weather and as I went through woodland seeing the wonderful Bluebells. There are to me a quintessentially British flower of our woodland (I know they can be seen in other countries). I may well put a picture I took last year in tomorrow&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s answers<\/p>\n<p>a) <strong><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">Hippocrates<\/span> <\/strong>is the father of medicine\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) <strong><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">Vitamin A <\/span><\/strong>helps to prevent night blindness\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 c)\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> Athlete&#8217;s Foot<\/span> <\/strong>is timea pedis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 d) <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Femur <\/span><\/strong>is the largest bone\u00a0 e) <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Aneurin Bevan<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flower theme for today! What flowers are supposed to be linked to the following meanings?<\/p>\n<p>a) <em><strong>Symbolises Birth\/new beginning<\/strong> <\/em>(Greek Mythology might help you)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) <em><strong>sword<\/strong> <\/em>(latin might help)\u00a0\u00a0 c) <em><strong>clean or brush\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em>d)\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong> rainbow<\/strong> <\/em>(Greek mythology again)\u00a0\u00a0 e) <em><strong>Love<\/strong> <\/em>and passion (should be easy)\u00a0 e) <em><strong>gauze<\/strong> <\/em>(Turkish word connected to turbans)<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your Easter Weekend !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing this blog often prompts hidden\/lost \u00a0memories and that was certainly true of a couple of days ago when I set questions on children&#8217;s books. It reminded me of my happy days as a primary school class teacher. It was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3067\">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-3067","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-Nt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","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=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}