{"id":512,"date":"2013-06-02T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T15:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2013-06-02T15:25:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T15:25:27","slug":"country-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Country Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well at last a period of &#8220;summer&#8221; type weather and doesn&#8217;t everywhere look better? I did a decent ride on Wednesday with some serious hills but got very wet! Today Clare and I enjoyed a pleasant cycle to the Garden Centre beyond Nailsworth 25 miles all round. She is enjoying doing a bit more on the bike. Next Sunday the boys are aiming to cycle to Malvern.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking to write for a Story Telling performance to coincide with the 1st World War anniversary at the moment I am thinking of playing a part of a soldier and include some poetry and music in the performance. It may be performed by two of us and I am hoping my brother Mike might be up for it. I will keep blogging about this as it develops but my aim is to have it written up by the end of the year and then start looking for performances.<\/p>\n<p>I have enjoyed bird watching around here in the last few days seeing a Wood Sandpiper, Lapwing chicks, and 100s of Swifts being highlights.<\/p>\n<p>I am off to play an all day game of cricket beyond Bristol tomorrow. I felt in better nick yesterday only got 16 but encouraging! We lost!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well at last a period of &#8220;summer&#8221; type weather and doesn&#8217;t everywhere look better? I did a decent ride on Wednesday with some serious hills but got very wet! Today Clare and I enjoyed a pleasant cycle to the Garden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=512\">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-512","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-8g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}