{"id":4115,"date":"2021-01-26T20:35:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T20:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2021-01-26T20:35:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T20:35:11","slug":"4115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4115","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sombre day with the news that 100,000 people have died now with Covid. The one thing in all this is the admiration for all those wonderful people in the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>NHS,<\/strong><\/span> public services and support workers (sure I&#8217;ve forgotten others).<\/p>\n<p>I managed to do a voluntary job today (on my own for obvious reasons) sorting out the area around some ponds. It was muddy and raining. Someone has to do it!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Quiz answers on <em><strong>Snow and Ice<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>a) The music for the Snow Maiden was written by <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Rimsky Korsakov\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>b) <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>George R. R. Martin<\/strong> <\/span>wrote Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones)\u00a0 c) Snow has to fall on the <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Met Office roof in London<\/strong> <\/span>on the 25th December to be declared an official White Christmas\u00a0 d) <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Torvill and Dean <\/strong><\/span>are the famous ice dancers\u00a0 e) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Ptarmigan<\/strong> <\/span>is the bird that turns white in winter.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Quiz is on <em><strong>Doctors<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>a) Who wrote <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Doctor Zhivago<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) He created a monster in <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Mary Shelley&#8217;s classic<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 c) Which Doctor can <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>talk to the animals<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0\u00a0 d) Who had a<span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong> &#8220;split personality&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span>? e) Who is the Greek Physician is \u00a0known as the<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong> &#8220;Father of Medicine?&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sombre day with the news that 100,000 people have died now with Covid. The one thing in all this is the admiration for all those wonderful people in the NHS, public services and support workers (sure I&#8217;ve forgotten others). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4115\">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-4115","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-4115","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","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=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4116,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}