{"id":4000,"date":"2020-12-26T20:39:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T20:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2020-12-26T20:39:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T20:39:41","slug":"st-stephens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4000","title":{"rendered":"St. Stephen’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I could of course put Boxing Day for the title! First of all I hope all of you had a good Christmas although it was probably different to what you normally do! We had a surprisingly social one meeting friends for a walk on Selsey Common and then joining neighbours on the street. We even managed a ride!<\/p>\n

Disappointed with my football’s team’s lacklustre first half today-on to Tuesday!<\/p>\n

I promised a picture from my story Pig the Legend<\/strong> <\/span>drawn by Jane Fryer<\/strong> <\/span>so look at it below. Should get you guessing about the story! I think it is unlikely I will write much more about the book until I have firm details but I was excited by the news so wanted to share something.<\/p>\n

A Boxing Day Quiz <\/strong>(I think I will go for three quizzes a week because we are now Tier 3!)<\/p>\n

a) What bird<\/strong> <\/span>was traditionally hunted on St. Stephen’s Day<\/span><\/strong>?(-the answer will surprise you if you don’t know)\u00a0 b) Who looked out<\/strong> <\/span>on the Feast of Stephen<\/span><\/strong>?\u00a0\u00a0 c) Why is it called Boxing Day<\/strong><\/span>? \u00a0(Pepys mentions why!)\u00a0 d) Where is the traditional Boxing Day Test match<\/strong><\/span> famously held?\u00a0 e) What do they call the 26th December<\/strong> <\/span>in South Africa?<\/p>\n

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I could of course put Boxing Day for the title! First of all I hope all of you had a good Christmas although it was probably different to what you normally do! We had a surprisingly social one meeting friends … Continue reading →<\/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-4000","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-12w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","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=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}