{"id":3082,"date":"2020-04-14T20:10:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2020-04-14T20:11:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:11:37","slug":"sunset-at-splatt-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3082","title":{"rendered":"Sunset at Splatt Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely evening at \u00a0Splatt Bridge on the Gloucester-Sharpness Canal. Went looking for migrants again and apart from a willow warbler I didn&#8217;t see any! However I did see egrets, curlew, lapwing\u00a0\u00a0and a beautiful song thrush.<\/p>\n<p>I have had enjoyed writing today and I am hoping to keep the momentum up tomorrow. It has all been\u00a0 on my Pig the Legend story and have got a few new ideas to develop watch this space!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s answers started with a self indulgent question!<\/p>\n<p>a) The record individual goal scorer on the 13th April was <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Joe Payne<\/strong> <\/span>who was asked to play up front for the first time and he scored <strong>ten<\/strong> goals against Bristol Rovers playing for the mighty <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Luton Town!<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 b)\u00a0\u00a0The hottest planet on average temperature is <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Venus<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 c) A <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Sloth<\/strong><\/span> is of course the slowest animal (should of said mammal!)\u00a0 d) <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>White Christmas<\/strong> <\/span>by <strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Bing Crosby<\/span> <\/strong>is the biggest selling single\u00a0\u00a0 e) The most expensive painting is <span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong>Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s questions is all on bikes-sorry! \u00a0(It is my favourite mode of transport!!!!)<\/p>\n<p>a) Who invented the<em><strong> first bicycle?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) Who invented the first <em><strong>pneumatic bicycle tyre?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 c) What <em><strong>British Woman<\/strong> <\/em>won 7 World Titles and 96 British National Titles?\u00a0 d) Who is the only cyclist to have won <em><strong>11 Grand Tours\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em>?\u00a0\u00a0 e)\u00a0 Who &#8220;<em><strong>will look sweet on the seat of a bicycle made for two?&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely evening at \u00a0Splatt Bridge on the Gloucester-Sharpness Canal. Went looking for migrants again and apart from a willow warbler I didn&#8217;t see any! However I did see egrets, curlew, lapwing\u00a0\u00a0and a beautiful song thrush. I have had enjoyed writing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3082\">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-3082","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-NI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","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=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}