{"id":3693,"date":"2020-10-17T19:39:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T19:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2020-10-17T19:40:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T19:40:15","slug":"a-ray-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3693","title":{"rendered":"A Ray of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In all the gloom in the world and the poor leadership from the populist politicians around the world it was good to see <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Jacinda Ardern<\/span> <\/strong>win the New Zealand election. A consistently impressive leader who shows you can be a decent human being and a politician. Such a contrast to Trump, Johnson and Bolsanaro!<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed visiting a socially distanced Art Workshops today.<\/p>\n<p>I watched<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong> Luton<\/strong> <\/span>play well today but came second! My David who is now an adopted son of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Exeter<\/strong> <\/span>was over the moon with <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Exeter&#8217;s<\/strong> <\/span>rugby European win, he has been connected with club for a long time from being a steward in their Championship days to now doing stats for the media at their home games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all the gloom in the world and the poor leadership from the populist politicians around the world it was good to see Jacinda Ardern win the New Zealand election. A consistently impressive leader who shows you can be a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3693\">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-3693","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-Xz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","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=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}