{"id":4193,"date":"2021-02-20T17:47:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T17:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2021-02-20T17:47:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T17:47:20","slug":"pond-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4193","title":{"rendered":"Pond Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to beat the frogs today by getting as much weed out of our pond as I can before the frogs move in. We are often kept awake by frisky frogs at this time of the year. I then have to get protective with the spawn to stop a pair of Mallards hovering it up!<\/p>\n<p>Dismal performance today like the weather by my football team against an average Stoke team. Lucky there are no cats around! The word na\u00efve comes to mind in summing that up!. On to Tuesday!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Quiz answers on <strong>Cars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) The delorean car was in <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Back to the Future\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>b) Drive My Car was from <span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong>Rubber Soul\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>c) Professor Potts drove <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Chitty Chitty Bang Bang\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>d) Ford set up the factory in <span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>Detroit<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 e) Dick Dastardly&#8217;s car was <span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>Mean Machine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Quiz is on <strong>Water Life<\/strong> (nearly all can be found in ponds)<\/p>\n<p>a) Why don&#8217;t fish eat <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Toads?<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 b) How do <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Pond Skaters detect<\/strong> <\/span>their prey?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 c) How <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>many species of dragonflies<\/strong> <\/span>are there in the UK?\u00a0 d) Which Heron type of bird has a <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>bizarre spatula like bill<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0\u00a0 e) \u00a0What is the <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>biggest species of Newt<\/strong> <\/span>in the UK?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to beat the frogs today by getting as much weed out of our pond as I can before the frogs move in. We are often kept awake by frisky frogs at this time of the year. I then have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4193\">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-4193","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-15D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","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=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4196,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions\/4196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}