{"id":4265,"date":"2021-03-15T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2021-03-15T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:05:08","slug":"stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4265","title":{"rendered":"Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the positive things from my gigs last week was the request for stories on different themes. I always enjoy the challenge of finding stories. \u00a0One infant class asked for a story with either the North Pole or South Pole in it. So I wrote one that had both poles \u00a0in it!\u00a0 Although it was a simple story it was stimulating being creative and using my brain again. I did need something to motivate me. I have since sent them the story for the children to illustrate it.<\/p>\n<p>Spent some time emptying a compost bin and I have to say I am chuffed with the outcome some lovely rich dark compost!<\/p>\n<p>One thing I forgot to mention last weekend it was exactly a year since I attended a live sporting event watching the mighty Hatters at Wigan. I have got Test Match tickets for this summer so fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p>Quiz today as I mentioned compost it is on <strong>gardens!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) Which King created the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Hanging Gardens of Babylon<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) What were brought to <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Britain \u00a0from Germany in 1847 by Sir Charles Isham<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0 c) What colour is the <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Welsh Poppy?<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 d) Which plant takes it&#8217;s name from the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Italian phrase for &#8220;Beautiful women?&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>e) Which <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>part of a flower<\/strong> <\/span>becomes the fruit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the positive things from my gigs last week was the request for stories on different themes. I always enjoy the challenge of finding stories. \u00a0One infant class asked for a story with either the North Pole or South &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4265\">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-4265","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-stories","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265","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=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}