{"id":5872,"date":"2023-03-09T16:32:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5872"},"modified":"2023-03-09T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:32:27","slug":"nothing-like-a-good-soaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5872","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Like A Good Soaking!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent yesterday with young people from <strong>Maidstone<\/strong> bird watching at <strong>Wick Court.<\/strong> It was something of an endurance test as we endured snow, sleet and later rain throughout. Any self respecting bird was hunkered down behind a hedge etc. Surprisingly we saw a <strong><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Song Thrush<\/span> <\/strong>which have been an increasingly rare sighting at <strong>Wick Court.<\/strong> The children were brilliant despite the wet and the cold. I of course got even wetter and colder pedalling home afterwards! Off later to <strong>Story Tell<\/strong> to these young people.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I am off to <strong>Wiltshire<\/strong> for another <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>World Book Day<\/strong><\/span> gig, visiting a school just outside of <strong>Trowbridge<\/strong> for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent yesterday with young people from Maidstone bird watching at Wick Court. It was something of an endurance test as we endured snow, sleet and later rain throughout. Any self respecting bird was hunkered down behind a hedge etc. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5872\">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-5872","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-1wI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872","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=5872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5873,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions\/5873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}