{"id":5115,"date":"2022-03-10T15:16:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T15:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5115"},"modified":"2022-03-10T15:16:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T15:16:59","slug":"books-birds-stories-and-footie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5115","title":{"rendered":"Books, Birds, Stories and Footie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great discussion last night at <strong>Book Club<\/strong> where we discussed <strong>Foe by J.M. Coetzee.<\/strong> Although the book wasn&#8217;t well received by us it did provoke a thoughtful debate! Especially when we considered the merits of a novel. I do like the way the discussion provokes different viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>It was a busy day with bird watching with young people from <strong>Maidstone<\/strong> at <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Wick Court<\/strong><\/span>. I was asked many thoughtful questions. I had to find out how many pigeons in the UK! I went on to a cricket net &#8211; actually batted reasonably well. Then Book Club so it was a long day!<\/p>\n<p>Another pleasing result for the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Mighty Hatters<\/strong><\/span> on Tuesday night without playing that well. Still amazed at where we are in the table!<\/p>\n<p>Story Telling later at <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Wick Court.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great discussion last night at Book Club where we discussed Foe by J.M. Coetzee. Although the book wasn&#8217;t well received by us it did provoke a thoughtful debate! Especially when we considered the merits of a novel. I do like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5115\">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-5115","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-1kv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115","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=5115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5116,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions\/5116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}