{"id":3808,"date":"2020-11-14T20:25:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T20:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2020-11-14T20:25:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T20:25:38","slug":"epitaph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3808","title":{"rendered":"Epitaph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to start with yesterday&#8217;s answers and you will see why as you read the rest of the blog.<\/p>\n<p>Horse Answers from yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>a) <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sam Gamgee<\/strong> <\/span>(Frodo&#8217;s right hand man) rode Bill the Pony\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Michael Morpurgo<\/strong> <\/span>wrote War Horse (more in the blog)\u00a0 c) <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Anna Sewell<\/strong> <\/span>wrote Black Beauty\u00a0\u00a0 d) A Hand is <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Four Inches\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>e) Appleby Horse Fair is in <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Cumbria<\/strong><\/span> f) Incitatus was <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Caligula&#8217;s<\/strong><\/span> Horse he wanted to make him a Consul!<\/p>\n<p>The <em><strong>War Horse<\/strong> <\/em>question reminded me of an event from four years ago when I saw <em><strong>War Horse<\/strong> <\/em>performed twice in a year! We watched the play with a predominantly adult audience and thoroughly enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you will know that I volunteer at <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Wick Court<\/strong> <\/span>one of the three\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Farms for City Children<\/strong> <\/span>that were set up by<em><strong> Claire and Michael Morpurgo<\/strong><\/em>-the charity was celebrating its 40th birthday and booked the <em><strong>Drury Lane Theatre<\/strong> <\/em>for a matinee of <strong><em>War House<\/em> <\/strong>where all the London schools that come to the farms and all the staff and volunteers from the farms were invited. So when we were walking into the theatre we met many excited young friends who had spent a week on the farm. The audience participated in certainly a very different and lively way to the adult one and it must of been special one for the actors! One magical moment was during the interval when I bumped into one young man who obviously remembered me from taking him <em><strong>Bird Watching<\/strong> <\/em>at the farm because he greeted me with a twinkle in his eye and the immortal line.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>&#8220;I know you! You are the one who taught us about Great Tits!&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following that I thought today&#8217;s quiz should be on Theatres!<\/p>\n<p>a) What is the name of the <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sheffield Theatre<\/span> <\/strong>hosts the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>World Snooker Championship<\/strong><\/span>? b) Which <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Elizabethan Theatre<\/strong><\/span>, built in 1587, was the first purpose built playhouse to ever stage a production of any of <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Shakespeare&#8217;s plays<\/span><\/strong>? c) In which <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">town<\/span><\/strong> is the Royal Shakespeare Company based? d) What&#8217;s the name of <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Bill Sykes&#8217; dog<\/strong> <\/span>in Oliver?\u00a0 e) Which superstitious alternative is used in the theatre to wish someone <strong><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">good luck<\/span><\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Michael and Joey below!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/methode_sundaytimes_prod_web_bin_5212ec10-d0dc-11e5-bba5-70a1824b5d37.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3809\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3809\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/methode_sundaytimes_prod_web_bin_5212ec10-d0dc-11e5-bba5-70a1824b5d37.jpg?fit=1180%2C663&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1180,663\" 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=\"_methode_sundaytimes_prod_web_bin_5212ec10-d0dc-11e5-bba5-70a1824b5d37\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/methode_sundaytimes_prod_web_bin_5212ec10-d0dc-11e5-bba5-70a1824b5d37.jpg?fit=584%2C328&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3809\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/methode_sundaytimes_prod_web_bin_5212ec10-d0dc-11e5-bba5-70a1824b5d37.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/methode_sundaytimes_prod_web_bin_5212ec10-d0dc-11e5-bba5-70a1824b5d37.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/methode_sundaytimes_prod_web_bin_5212ec10-d0dc-11e5-bba5-70a1824b5d37.jpg?resize=1024%2C575&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/methode_sundaytimes_prod_web_bin_5212ec10-d0dc-11e5-bba5-70a1824b5d37.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/methode_sundaytimes_prod_web_bin_5212ec10-d0dc-11e5-bba5-70a1824b5d37.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/methode_sundaytimes_prod_web_bin_5212ec10-d0dc-11e5-bba5-70a1824b5d37.jpg?w=1180&amp;ssl=1 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to start with yesterday&#8217;s answers and you will see why as you read the rest of the blog. Horse Answers from yesterday. a) Sam Gamgee (Frodo&#8217;s right hand man) rode Bill the Pony\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) Michael Morpurgo wrote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3808\">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-3808","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\/s2D5Gc-epitaph","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","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=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}