{"id":3348,"date":"2020-06-01T19:54:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2020-06-01T19:54:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:54:37","slug":"never-any-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3348","title":{"rendered":"Never Any Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just been listening to the <strong>Martin Simpson<\/strong> song of the title and it always catches me out! So thought we would use it for today&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p>This wonderful weather would be great for cricket both playing and watching. So it today was tinged with sadness when we were offered a refund on our Test Match tickets for this month.<\/p>\n<p>To cheer me up I collected a mini-keg of Uley Bitter today and currently enjoying quaffing my thirst! As a public service I also collected three more for other people! You have to get your priorities right!<\/p>\n<p>I am currently enjoying reading <strong>Cannery Row<\/strong> for Book Club next week. I last read it as a young man (I know it was a very,very, very long time ago!)<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s answer to throwing the cricket ball was <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">140 yards and 2 feet!<\/span><\/strong> You can have 5 yards either way!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s quiz is all on beer!<\/p>\n<p>a) What does<strong> beer<\/strong> contain that traditionally <strong>ale<\/strong> does not?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) What does <strong>CAMRA<\/strong> stand for?\u00a0 c) Which <strong>country<\/strong> is supposed to drink more beer per person?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 d) Which city is the world&#8217;s <strong>biggest beer festival held? <\/strong>\u00a0e) Which <strong>ancient civilisation<\/strong> is set to be the first to make beer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just been listening to the Martin Simpson song of the title and it always catches me out! So thought we would use it for today&#8217;s blog. This wonderful weather would be great for cricket both playing and watching. So it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3348\">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-3348","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-S0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","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=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}