{"id":3613,"date":"2020-09-14T20:40:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2020-09-14T20:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:40:37","slug":"pig-the-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3613","title":{"rendered":"Pig the Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met Jane Fryer the local artist today to look at her illustrations for my new story currently called <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>&#8220;Pig the Legend&#8221;.<\/strong><\/span> There are great and have captured the characters well, you never know I might put one in a future blog to whet your appetite! Still not sure about the title so watch this space! Jane did the illustrations for &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t Look At Me Like That&#8221;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I promised you news of a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Frampton<\/strong><\/span> visitor. Below is a picture I took on my phone of the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Great White Egret<\/span> <\/strong>in one of our village ponds. For those of you who are not sure about Egrets-the <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>Little Egret<\/strong> <\/span>is the one most of us will see across the country. They starting arriving into Britain about 30 or 40 years ago . <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Cattle Egrets<\/strong> <\/span>common in Africa have started to breed in the South West &#8211; there are currently a few around the <em><strong>WWT<\/strong><\/em> in <em><strong>Slimbridge.<\/strong> <\/em>Great Whites are now turning up in the South West I have seen four in the area over the last year. So for one to turn up on a village pond of all places is quite something! Apologies for picture quality but it was taken on my phone while sitting on my bike! <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_1852-1-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3614\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3614\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_1852-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" 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;1600001227&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00041407867494824&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1852 (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_1852-1-scaled.jpg?fit=584%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-3614 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_1852-1-scaled.jpg?resize=493%2C373&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Jane Fryer the local artist today to look at her illustrations for my new story currently called &#8220;Pig the Legend&#8221;. There are great and have captured the characters well, you never know I might put one in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3613\">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-3613","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-Wh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","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=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}