{"id":4068,"date":"2021-01-13T17:56:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2021-01-13T17:56:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:56:03","slug":"book-club-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4068","title":{"rendered":"Book Club Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is sadly another zoom for our <em><strong>Beer and Books<\/strong><\/em> group. Although we will tackle our discussion with our customary humour and thoughtful insights I desperately crave the day when we can meet. Normally on alternative months we all contribute with our culinary skills to a wonderful feast themed on the book we will discuss the following month. Verbal asides and gestures don&#8217;t really work on Zoom! Having said that we make the best of it! Tonight&#8217;s Book is <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Goodbye to Berlin<\/strong> <\/span>by <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Christopher Isherwood<\/span><\/strong>. I was just finishing it last week as the disgraceful scenes were taking place in Washington and these sadly chimed with 1930&#8217;s Berlin.\u00a0\u00a0Look forward to what my fellow readers think!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Yesterday&#8217;s Quiz<\/strong> <\/em>answers on the<em><strong> weather<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>a) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Twister<\/strong><\/span> is slang for Tornado\u00a0\u00a0 b) Nephology is the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>study of Clouds\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>c) An anemometer <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>measures wind\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(as a former primary school teacher I got quite good at making them!) <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>d) The <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>troposphere<\/strong> <\/span>is the lowest layer of the atmosphere\u00a0\u00a0 e) <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Humidity<\/strong> <\/span>is moisture in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Quiz is on <em><strong>Books!<\/strong><\/em> I know I&#8217;ve done it before but hey&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>a) What was the name of <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Charles Dickens last book<\/strong> <\/span>that was left unfinished?\u00a0\u00a0 b) Who wrote <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Paddington Bear<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0\u00a0 c) In which novel did <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Sherlock Holmes<\/strong> <\/span>first appear? d) Which story has the alternative title <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>&#8220;The Modern Prometheus&#8221;<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0 e) Which travel writer comes from <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>De Moines, Iowa?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is sadly another zoom for our Beer and Books group. Although we will tackle our discussion with our customary humour and thoughtful insights I desperately crave the day when we can meet. Normally on alternative months we all contribute &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4068\">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-4068","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-13C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068","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=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}