{"id":6429,"date":"2023-12-12T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T15:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2023-12-12T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T15:43:36","slug":"boney-or-little-corporal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6429","title":{"rendered":"Boney or Little Corporal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am off later to watch <strong>Ridley Scott&#8217;s<\/strong> film <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8220;Napoleon&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> which has had mixed reviews! I know historical fact will be lacking!<\/p>\n<p>Having spent time working on <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>St. Helena<\/strong><\/span> and having read quite a bit I do find him an interesting historical figure- especially his rise from being a Corsican officer to the most powerful figure in Europe. Talking of interesting figures who rise to the top, another tyrant is <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Julius Caesar<\/strong> <\/span>(just finished watching the BBC 2 series on him). I will review the film tomorrow! I can&#8217;t persuade <strong>Clare<\/strong> to come with me- there is much blood and gore!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget all are welcome at the <strong>Three Horseshoes, Frampton<\/strong> tomorrow night for my <strong>Book Club&#8217;s Christmas Entertainment<\/strong> starting at 8 pm It will feature music <strong>(<em>Dan Everett, Chris and\u00a0 Molly Robbins),<\/em><\/strong> poems from the legendary <em><strong>Mike Church, Brian Dimmock and Rogan Woolf.<\/strong><\/em> Possibly some more songs from <em><strong>Terry Coughlin!<\/strong> <\/em>And a course a story from your truly &#8211; I am also MC for the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am off later to watch Ridley Scott&#8217;s film &#8220;Napoleon&#8221; which has had mixed reviews! I know historical fact will be lacking! Having spent time working on St. Helena and having read quite a bit I do find him an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6429\">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-6429","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-1FH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429","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=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6430,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions\/6430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}