{"id":5041,"date":"2022-02-07T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2022-02-07T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:28:00","slug":"snowdrops-and-crocuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5041","title":{"rendered":"Snowdrops and Crocuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went for a long ride with my cycling buddies today and it was lovely to see blankets of <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>snowdrops<\/strong><\/span> interspersed with colourful <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>crocuses<\/strong><\/span>. An early sign that <strong>Spring<\/strong> is around the corner. It does give you that lovely warm glow when you spot another batch of these flowers. Another sign was hearing <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>Song Thrushes<\/strong> <\/span>singing from the tree tops and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Great Spotted Woodpeckers\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>drumming for territory.<\/p>\n<p>Spending time searching for stories for up and coming gigs. Always good to find new stories and finding ones that I had forgotten!!! Looking again at my <strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Cedric the Dragon<\/span><\/strong> story and aiming to tweak it for a telling.<\/p>\n<p>Heard today that 10 of my first book were sold at <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> on Friday to the young people who stayed that week. It does help I told the <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Mollie story<\/strong> <\/span>the night before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went for a long ride with my cycling buddies today and it was lovely to see blankets of snowdrops interspersed with colourful crocuses. An early sign that Spring is around the corner. It does give you that lovely warm glow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5041\">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-5041","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-1jj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041","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=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5043,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}