{"id":5117,"date":"2022-03-11T13:22:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2022-03-11T13:22:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:22:50","slug":"shaggy-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5117","title":{"rendered":"Shaggy Dogs!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed telling a <strong>Shaggy Dog Story<\/strong> last night at <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> with the <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">River Severn<\/span><\/strong> prominent throughout. I have told variations of this particular story before but I now add some extra layers on! Lovely reaction when the young people realised they had been led up the garden path!<\/p>\n<p>We have now raised about \u00a3600 for <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Alzheimer&#8217;s Society<\/span><\/strong> with the sale of the book<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Pig The Legend.<\/span><\/strong> When I sell the book the whole price goes to to the charity when it is sold through a book shop often 40% is taken off. However, sold through Amazon we hardly make anything at all! (No wonder they make eye watering profits!)<\/p>\n<p>I have tried to avoid mentioning the news in a Story telling blog but I am embarrassed by my country&#8217;s response to the refugee crisis in Europe compared to the generosity our neighbours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed telling a Shaggy Dog Story last night at Wick Court with the River Severn prominent throughout. I have told variations of this particular story before but I now add some extra layers on! Lovely reaction when the young &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5117\">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-5117","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-1kx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","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=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}