{"id":3403,"date":"2020-06-17T19:42:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T19:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2020-06-17T19:42:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T19:42:52","slug":"its-coming-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3403","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Coming Home&#8230;&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thought the Three Lions song\u00a0 might be appropriate for this surreal world with football coming back. I watched a snippet tonight and surreal is the word! Maybe when Saturday comes and I have an emotional investment I may be able to immerse myself fully in it! I had a beer delivery today so I cam simulate the Bricklayers Arms where we go for a pint before the game! It should help!<\/p>\n<p>To mark football&#8217;s return the picture below \u00a0has the three Church boys before Dursley U16s played the Dads and our David was the ref(it was a long time ago!) Think it was 2-2 and I know our Peter was marking me for a corner when I nicked in front of him and \u00a0scored with a near post header. I&#8217;ve never let him forget it!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Quiz answers on songs connected to Storms.<\/p>\n<p>a)<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong> The Doors<\/strong> <\/span>sang Riders on the Storm (for you Colin!)\u00a0\u00a0 b) <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Neil Young<\/strong> <\/span>sang Like a Hurricane\u00a0\u00a0 c) <strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Dylan<\/span><\/strong> sang Shelter from the Storm\u00a0 d) <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong> <\/span>sang the Rain Song\u00a0 e) Thunder Road was <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The Boss (Springsteen)\u00a0 <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(apart from the Neil Young song they are all in my record collection.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Quiz is all on <em><strong>sport!!!!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>a) <strong><em>How many players<\/em> <\/strong>can be on the ice for an ice hockey team?\u00a0\u00a0 b) At which Summer Olympics did <strong><em>28 African countries boycott?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> c) What is the only sport to be played <em><strong>beyond Earth?\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em>d) Who was the first player to score <em><strong>10,000 Test Match runs<\/strong> <\/em>?\u00a0 e) In 1950 India withdrew from the World Cup because FIFA <strong><em>refused to let them do what?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_1698-1-rotated-e1592422657442.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0\u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3406\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3406\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_1698-1-rotated-e1592422657442.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1592414178&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.03030303030303&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1698 (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_1698-1-rotated-e1592422657442.jpg?fit=584%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3406\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_1698-1-rotated-e1592422657442.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\/IMG_1698-1-rotated-e1592422657442.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_1698-1-rotated-e1592422657442.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_1698-1-rotated-e1592422657442.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought the Three Lions song\u00a0 might be appropriate for this surreal world with football coming back. I watched a snippet tonight and surreal is the word! Maybe when Saturday comes and I have an emotional investment I may be able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3403\">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-3403","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-ST","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403","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=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3409,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}