{"id":4041,"date":"2021-01-04T20:02:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T20:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2021-01-04T20:02:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T20:02:54","slug":"reasons-to-be-cheerful-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4041","title":{"rendered":"Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thought I would use Ian Dury and the Blockheads for today&#8217;s title because my goodness we need it! The news has been so depressing, the incompetence and indecision of our government just adds to the depression. So some random positive thoughts!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Oxford Astra Zeneca<\/strong> -brilliant collaboration to get to this point<\/li>\n<li><strong>NHS<\/strong> brilliant but we must look after it!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jacinda Ardern<\/strong> a politician who is honest, compassionate and competent a real beacon of hope!<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Attenborough<\/strong> a truly great man and a national treasure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could of added more things but they are the first things that came into my head.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway it looks like more quizzes on the Blog today&#8217;s is all about January.<\/p>\n<p>a) Which world city&#8217;s name means <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8220;Rivers of January?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>b) On the 17th January <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Robert Falcon Scott<\/strong> <\/span>reached the <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">South Pole<\/span> <\/strong>in what year?\u00a0\u00a0 c) From Roman mythology <strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">January is named after what god<\/span><\/strong>?\u00a0\u00a0 d) Which date on January \u00a0is the traditional date for the <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Feast of Epiphany<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0 e) What is <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>January&#8217;s birthstone<\/strong> <\/span>(hint &#8211; the name comes from the 14th century \u00a0English word meaning &#8220;dark red&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought I would use Ian Dury and the Blockheads for today&#8217;s title because my goodness we need it! The news has been so depressing, the incompetence and indecision of our government just adds to the depression. So some random positive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4041\">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-4041","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-13b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041","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=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}