{"id":4869,"date":"2021-11-11T16:24:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2021-11-11T16:24:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T16:24:52","slug":"the-left-hand-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4869","title":{"rendered":"The Left Hand of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s title is the<strong> Ursula K.Le Guin<\/strong> book which we discussed last night at<strong> Book Club.<\/strong> We have only really skirted around <strong>Science Fiction<\/strong> in the past so this book provoked a lively and thoughtful discussion. What I like about our <strong>Book Club<\/strong> is it makes me read books I wouldn&#8217;t normally choose. I did read her <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Wizard of Earthsea<\/strong><\/span> trilogy many many years ago! Next month we are doing our entertainment (including\u00a0 story from you know who) in the pub after missing last year for obvious reasons. It will mean a busy month on the <strong>Story Telling<\/strong> front to adult audiences for me.<\/p>\n<p>Had a lovely time taking the young people from <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Old Oak Primary<\/strong><\/span> birding around <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>Wick Court<\/strong> <\/span>yesterday. I am Story Telling for them later.<\/p>\n<p>Today we went to do our final <strong>Winter Square Bird Survey<\/strong> in the North of the county. Sadly we were hampered by footpaths being blocked off and a stile in poor repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s title is the Ursula K.Le Guin book which we discussed last night at Book Club. We have only really skirted around Science Fiction in the past so this book provoked a lively and thoughtful discussion. What I like about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4869\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4869","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-1gx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","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=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}