{"id":4191,"date":"2021-02-19T21:20:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2021-02-19T21:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:20:50","slug":"grumpy-old-man-part1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4191","title":{"rendered":"Grumpy Old Man  (part1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title refers to me of course! I thought every now and again I would share some of the things that make me a Grumpy Old Man on occasions! One of my pet hates is SUV&#8217;s! I do find it bizarre that these seem to be more and more of these monstrosities on the road. They fill up car parking spaces and you can&#8217;t see round them and I&#8217;m not sure they are that environmentally friendly! I also got splashed by one of them today!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Quiz on <strong>Pigs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The Sheep Pig<\/strong> <\/span>was written by Dick King Smith and I remember him saying on a school visit it was the book he was most proud of. Of course it later became the film Babe\u00a0\u00a0 b)\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Wilbur<\/strong> <\/span>was the pig in Charlotte&#8217;s Web\u00a0 c) The <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Tamworth Two<\/strong> <\/span>were the escaped pigs\u00a0 d) <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Napoleon<\/strong><\/span> was the Supreme Commander in Animal Farm\u00a0 e) <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Denmark<\/strong> <\/span>has more pigs than humans<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Quiz is on <strong>Cars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) In which 1985 film starred a <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>delorean \u00a0car?<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 b) Which Beatles Album includes the song <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>&#8220;Drive My car<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 c) Which famous car did <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Professor Caractacus Potts<\/strong> <\/span>drive?\u00a0 d) In which city did Henry Ford <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>establish a car factory<\/strong> <\/span>in 1899\u00a0\u00a0 e) What was <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Dick Dastardly&#8217;s<\/strong> <\/span>car in Wacky Races?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title refers to me of course! I thought every now and again I would share some of the things that make me a Grumpy Old Man on occasions! One of my pet hates is SUV&#8217;s! I do find it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4191\">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-4191","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-15B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","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=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}