{"id":5106,"date":"2022-03-06T17:43:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T17:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5106"},"modified":"2022-03-06T17:43:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T17:43:44","slug":"blinded-by-the-light-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5106","title":{"rendered":"Blinded By The Light (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watched the last part of the film <strong>Blinded By The Light<\/strong> on Friday. We had seen it at the cinema before the pandemic. It is a delightful film about a young Muslim lad growing up in <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Luton<\/strong><\/span> being besotted by the music of<strong> Bruce Springsteen<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>(The Boss).<\/strong><\/span> I obviously knew some of the locations and enjoy the music. So I did go to bed with a smile on my face.<\/p>\n<p>Disappointed that my football team lost yesterday so leaving players out for the cup game against Chelsea didn&#8217;t work!<\/p>\n<p>Off for a quiz tonight at the cricket club with friends &#8211; my quiz team won on Thursday -our third match in a row!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watched the last part of the film Blinded By The Light on Friday. We had seen it at the cinema before the pandemic. It is a delightful film about a young Muslim lad growing up in Luton being besotted by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5106\">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-5106","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-1km","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106","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=5106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5108,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions\/5108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}