{"id":4567,"date":"2021-06-21T19:11:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T19:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2021-06-21T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T19:13:12","slug":"books-and-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4567","title":{"rendered":"Books and Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title says it all. At the bottom is a link to click on of the whole cover (includes the blurb on the back) of my soon to be published book <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Pig The Legend<\/strong> <\/span>-still waiting for a publication date.<\/p>\n<p>On a book theme our Book Club are meeting on Wednesday to discuss <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Under Milk Wood<\/strong> <\/span>by <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Dylan Thomas<\/strong><\/span>, I listened to the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Richard Burton<\/strong> <\/span>broadcast yesterday. His voice is wonderful to listen to, and almost musical in this broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>On a sporting theme it was disappointing weekend with the anti-climax of the England football team on Friday- interesting to see one of Scotland&#8217;s effective players was deemed not good enough for my football team when in League 2 (Div4). I had hoped\u00a0 to be enthralled by the Cricket&#8217;s\u00a0 World Test Championship between New Zealand and India but that has been ruined by the weather. I am also supposed to play two games of cricket this week. I am hoping the body holds up, I am currently nursing a slight groin strain, so fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Church_FC-3.pdf\">Church_FC (3)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title says it all. At the bottom is a link to click on of the whole cover (includes the blurb on the back) of my soon to be published book Pig The Legend -still waiting for a publication date. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4567\">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-4567","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-1bF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567","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=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4571,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions\/4571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}