{"id":3675,"date":"2020-10-13T19:15:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2020-10-13T19:15:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:15:03","slug":"mars-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3675","title":{"rendered":"Mars is Coming!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No don&#8217;t be alarmed it is not some <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Martian<\/span><\/strong> invasion or the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Roman God of War \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>bearing down on us.\u00a0 No it is just the last time <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Mars<\/strong><\/span> was so close to us here on <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Earth<\/strong> <\/span>was fifteen years ago. I did notice it was bright in the night sky last week so later tonight I am taking my telescope out to have a good view-if I see <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Martian<\/strong><\/span> spaceships coming our way I will blog about it tomorrow \u00a0-not sure how \u00a0they would cope with the virus though! I think for my sanity it is important to experience and enjoy the natural things around us.<\/p>\n<p>Had a lovely ride today with the <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Old Groynes<\/span> <\/strong>cycling group (there are four of us who have undertaken many long distance cycling adventures over the years). The trees in the <strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Cotswold Valleys<\/span> <\/strong>were decked in their autumn colours, <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>looking especially beautiful from the hill tops.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this I am enjoying listening to the music of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Show of Hands<\/strong>.<\/span> I do hope that we will be able to see live performance of music, theatre again in the not to distant future; and of course <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Story Tellers<\/span><\/strong>!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Mars.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3676\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3676\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Mars.jpg?fit=933%2C553&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"933,553\" 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=\"Mars\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Mars.jpg?fit=584%2C346&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3676\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Mars.jpg?resize=498%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No don&#8217;t be alarmed it is not some Martian invasion or the Roman God of War \u00a0bearing down on us.\u00a0 No it is just the last time Mars was so close to us here on Earth was fifteen years ago. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3675\">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-3675","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-Xh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","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=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3679,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/3679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}