{"id":4031,"date":"2021-01-01T17:47:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T17:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2021-01-01T17:47:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T17:47:52","slug":"2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4031","title":{"rendered":"2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Happy New Year<\/strong> <\/span>to all my readers and let us hope for a better year for all of us. I look forward to seeing friends again properly and hopefully <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>Story Telling<\/strong><\/span> again to a live audience.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <em><strong>Winter Quiz<\/strong> <\/em>answers<\/p>\n<p>a) The Shakespeare quote was from <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Richard the Third<\/strong><\/span>&#8211; I always enjoyed Laurence Olivier&#8217;s wonderful performance although Shakepseare version is not that popular in Yorkshire!\u00a0 b) <em><strong>The Winter Palace \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is in <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>St.Petersburg<\/strong> <\/span>and I often tell a wonderful folk tale that is a trick story\u00a0that ends up in the <em><strong>Winter Palace<\/strong> <\/em>and having visited the Palace three years ago it has certainly added texture to my telling!\u00a0 c)\u00a0 Christina Rossetti&#8217;s poem was &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>In the Bleak Midwinter&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> -my favourite carol!\u00a0 d) <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Narnia<\/strong> <\/span>was where the White Witch wouldn&#8217;t let Christmas come\u00a0 e) <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Frost Fairs<\/strong> <\/span>were held on the Thames the last one was held in 1814 -the last time the Thames froze over was in the 62-63 winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year to all my readers and let us hope for a better year for all of us. I look forward to seeing friends again properly and hopefully Story Telling again to a live audience. Yesterday&#8217;s Winter Quiz answers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4031\">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-4031","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-2021","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031","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=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}