{"id":676,"date":"2013-10-23T14:02:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2013-10-23T14:02:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:02:03","slug":"great-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Great Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A busy week for me wearing my voluntary hat. Several visits on HVV business finishing with all day Friday. Tomorrow I am cycling up the long hill to the Parliament Centre.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday afternoon I did my usual bird watching at Wick Court. The children\u00a0are from the Charles Dickens School London. Despite the wet weather I don&#8217;t think I ever met a group of children who were so full of questions in their desire to extend their knowledge. I hardly had time to breath. Their enthusiasm and passion for learning was delightful. I don&#8217;t think any of them were called Pip or Estelle!<\/p>\n<p>Big breakthrough on the local front I have managed to get access to the 100 Acre Viewing Platform (great for birds and in the Spring boxing Hares). I&#8217;ve now got to\u00a0raise funding for two kissing gates to make this happen. Any contributions from bird watchers or local walkers welcome!<\/p>\n<p>Hope to blog again Friday or Saturday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy week for me wearing my voluntary hat. Several visits on HVV business finishing with all day Friday. Tomorrow I am cycling up the long hill to the Parliament Centre. On Monday afternoon I did my usual bird watching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=676\">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-676","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-aU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}