{"id":3250,"date":"2020-05-11T18:35:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T18:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2020-05-11T18:37:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T18:37:21","slug":"wild-is-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3250","title":{"rendered":"Wild is the Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another wind themed title today thank you David Bowie. On my exercise today I used it to fly down the A38 and tried to come back with some sort of shelter with mixed success.<\/p>\n<p>I apologise there is no Quiz today (will try and remedy this tomorrow) we have a family Zoom tonight and I also need to have a conversation later with the other half of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Two Severn Bores<\/strong><\/span> Dan, about our podcast. I listened to the first part earlier and it was encouraging but we have one or two wrinkles to iron out. Clare when she listened didn&#8217;t believe the voice she heard was me not sure who she thought it was! Anyway a picture of Dan below we used this one for some publicity last year he does look brooding doesn&#8217;t he-perhaps he is thinking &#8220;What have I got myself in with this Story Telling Bloke!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The nickname I gave \u00a0our leader yesterday (I may of heard it somewhere else) <strong>Mr Wiffle\/Waffle<\/strong> was about right after last night&#8217;s address to us all. Why didn&#8217;t they introduce quarantine on flights 5 weeks ago? Why no acknowledgement of mistakes! Does make me cross!\u00a0\u00a0It is significant that the two wide boy populist leaders in the world are where the most deaths are- I think both were slow to react-still enough of that! No political comments on the present crisis tomorrow I promiose!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/9K6A5574-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3251\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3251\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/9K6A5574-scaled.jpg?fit=1707%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1707,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1488022766&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;45&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"9K6A5574\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/9K6A5574-scaled.jpg?fit=584%2C876&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3251\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/9K6A5574-scaled.jpg?resize=584%2C876&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/9K6A5574-scaled.jpg?w=1707&amp;ssl=1 1707w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/9K6A5574-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/9K6A5574-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/9K6A5574-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/9K6A5574-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/9K6A5574-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/9K6A5574-scaled.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another wind themed title today thank you David Bowie. On my exercise today I used it to fly down the A38 and tried to come back with some sort of shelter with mixed success. I apologise there is no Quiz &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3250\">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-3250","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-Qq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","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=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}