{"id":4320,"date":"2021-04-04T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T18:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2021-04-04T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T18:58:15","slug":"april-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4320","title":{"rendered":"April Variations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a super day today, sun shining and the wind had dropped. Tomorrow sounds like it is back to Winter so shorts might have to go away! Ironically did some preparation work down at the cricket club!<\/p>\n<p>I went looking for migrants this afternoon (had seen a Willow Warbler yesterday) and apart from a solitary Swallow no luck but did catch a fleeting glimpse of a male Merlin (one of my favourite birds) which is unusual here at this time of\u00a0year.<\/p>\n<p>Completed our family catch up yesterday visiting my eldest son David and his wife Vicky in Exeter. Wonderful! It has been lovely to see many families reunite this weekend-many have chosen Frampton for this!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <em><strong>April Fool<\/strong> <\/em>answers<\/p>\n<p>a) <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Richard Dimbleby and the BBC Panorama<\/strong> <\/span>programme had spaghetti growing on trees.\u00a0 b) <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>Marvin Gaye<\/strong> <\/span>was murdered on April 1st 1984\u00a0 c) <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Burger King<\/strong> <\/span>had the left handed burgers!\u00a0 d) It was <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>flying Penguins<\/strong> <\/span>that were supposed to migrate to the Amazon reported by the BBC in 2008\u00a0 e)\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>France<\/strong> <\/span>is the country where April 1st is known as <em><strong>April Fish<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a super day today, sun shining and the wind had dropped. Tomorrow sounds like it is back to Winter so shorts might have to go away! Ironically did some preparation work down at the cricket club! I went looking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4320\">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-4320","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-17G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320","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=4320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}