{"id":4113,"date":"2021-01-25T20:34:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T20:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2021-01-25T20:34:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T20:34:30","slug":"snow-and-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4113","title":{"rendered":"Snow and Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I think we all had some white stuff over the weekend some more than others! It was bitterly cold Sunday night here and the roads were dodgy this morning. I did do a tentative ride this afternoon virtually sticking to main roads which I normally avoid but I thought it was a safer option!<\/p>\n<p>The cricket was a welcome tonic and Joe Root was superb as was the Sri Lankan left arm bowler. I think India will be a much tougher test but looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>Football was disappointing yesterday and it didn&#8217;t help the ref made an awful mistake early on that hurt the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Mighty Hatters<\/strong><\/span>. Still think the boys acquitted themselves well . We will now concentrate on the league!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Quiz is all vaguely connected with <em><strong>Ice and Snow!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>a) Which composer wrote the music for the opera <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>The Snow Maiden<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0\u00a0 b) Who wrote the series of books <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Song of ice and Fire<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0\u00a0 c) Where does <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>snow have to fall<\/strong> <\/span>for there to be an official declaration of a White Christmas?\u00a0\u00a0 d) Which <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>British couple dominated<\/strong> <\/span>the world of ice dancing in the 1980s? \u00a0e) Which bird turns <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>white in Winter<\/strong><\/span>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I think we all had some white stuff over the weekend some more than others! It was bitterly cold Sunday night here and the roads were dodgy this morning. I did do a tentative ride this afternoon virtually sticking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4113\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4113","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-14l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113","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=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4114,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}