{"id":3659,"date":"2020-10-07T19:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2020-10-07T19:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T19:30:03","slug":"draconid-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3659","title":{"rendered":"Draconid Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had planned to go out tonight to look for the meteorite shower. Sadly as I went out it was pouring with rain-so no chance! Shall have another go tomorrow. We are lucky where we live because just a short walk from the house we can get away from all light pollution. About fifteen years or so ago on a Winter night I managed to see the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Northern Lights<\/strong><\/span> from that spot!<\/p>\n<p>Clare and I managed to get a lovely ride today going up over <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Selsey Common<\/strong> <\/span>for Coffee and Cake in <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Uley<\/strong><\/span> at the<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong> Prema Arts Centre<\/strong><\/span>. I watch Clare disappear in the distance as we climb on her e-bike!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Slowly getting closer to sending my story <strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Pig the Legend<\/span> <\/strong>off. The pictures are nearly all in place!<\/p>\n<p>I even played football last night for the first time since lock down-I was the oldest by a long way-one of the players is a former pupil from my first Headship!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/draconid-meteor-shower-2020.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0\u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3660\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3660\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/draconid-meteor-shower-2020.jpg?fit=1200%2C901&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,901\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"draconid meteor shower 2020\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/draconid-meteor-shower-2020.jpg?fit=584%2C439&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3660\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/draconid-meteor-shower-2020.jpg?resize=488%2C369&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had planned to go out tonight to look for the meteorite shower. Sadly as I went out it was pouring with rain-so no chance! Shall have another go tomorrow. We are lucky where we live because just a short &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3659\">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-3659","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-X1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659","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=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3662,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}