{"id":3417,"date":"2020-06-20T20:25:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2020-06-20T20:25:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T20:25:04","slug":"a-thousand-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3417","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well not quite but it feels like a thousand plus pieces of tree here at the moment! I chose the Stereophonics song for today&#8217;s title because it seems most of my garden time at the moment is clearing up the aftermath of the great chunk of tree coming down. I think I am winning!<\/p>\n<p>I watched a <strong>full<\/strong> football match this afternoon for the first time since early March. It was a bit of a damp squib to be honest. At least my team avoided losing when not playing very well! It is hard without a crowd and atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Quiz on Hares<\/p>\n<p>a) <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Masquerade<\/strong> <\/span>by Kit Williams was the treasure hunt book\u00a0\u00a0 b) <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Drove<\/span><\/strong> is the collective noun for Hares\u00a0\u00a0 c) <strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Jack<\/span> <\/strong>is a male Hare\u00a0 d) <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Jill<\/strong><\/span> is a female Hare\u00a0 e) A White Hare is often supposed to be a <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">witch<\/span><\/strong> in disguise but sometimes it is a <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">young maiden<\/span><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Quiz is on <strong>Trees!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) What small <strong>Colorado city<\/strong> founded as a mining camp was later named after an abundance of certain trees in the area?\u00a0\u00a0 b) Can you name the <strong>only country<\/strong> named after a tree?\u00a0 c) What is <strong>dendrochronology<\/strong> ?\u00a0\u00a0 d) What are<strong> linden trees<\/strong> commonly called in the UK?\u00a0 e) Possibly the most famous tree in UK &#8220;<strong>The Major Oak<\/strong>&#8221; is found where?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well not quite but it feels like a thousand plus pieces of tree here at the moment! I chose the Stereophonics song for today&#8217;s title because it seems most of my garden time at the moment is clearing up the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3417\">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-3417","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-T7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","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=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}