{"id":3376,"date":"2020-06-09T20:59:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2020-06-09T20:59:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:59:45","slug":"shes-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3376","title":{"rendered":"She&#8217;s Electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A power cut tonight in deepest Frampton hence the Oasis title-not that we were electric here!<\/p>\n<p>With the turmoil in the news at the moment, I thought I would share an unusual gig I was asked to do linked to possibly \u00a0a historic moment in Bristol at the weekend. Bristol has always seemed to have contorted itself \u00a0reconciling it&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n<p>In my first year of Story Telling I was asked to work highlighting the \u00a0Bristol Pound and tell a stories by The Nails in Corn Street to young people. The Nails was where business was conducted hence the expression &#8220;on the nail&#8221; I dressed as a 17th century merchant (picture below) and my stories highlighted doing business there and of course that had to include uncomfortable references to the slave trade.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Quiz on bikes<\/p>\n<p>a) <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Lanterne Rouge<\/span> <\/strong>is last place in the Tour\u00a0 b) <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Peloton<\/strong><\/span> is the group of cyclists\u00a0 c) \u00a0<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Derailleur<\/strong> <\/span>is the gear shifter\u00a0 d) <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Egan Bernal <\/strong><\/span>won the Tour last year\u00a0 e) There approximately <strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">one billion<\/span> <\/strong>bikes in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t had time to do a quiz tonight with the power cut.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bill-at-exchange-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3378\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3378\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bill-at-exchange-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-F828&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1342044526&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;28.7&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bill at exchange\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bill-at-exchange-scaled.jpg?fit=584%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3378\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bill-at-exchange-scaled.jpg?resize=584%2C438&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bill-at-exchange-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bill-at-exchange-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bill-at-exchange-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bill-at-exchange-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bill-at-exchange-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bill-at-exchange-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bill-at-exchange-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bill-at-exchange-scaled.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bill-at-exchange-scaled.jpg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A power cut tonight in deepest Frampton hence the Oasis title-not that we were electric here! With the turmoil in the news at the moment, I thought I would share an unusual gig I was asked to do linked to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3376\">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-3376","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-Ss","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","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=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}