{"id":689,"date":"2013-11-07T14:09:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T14:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2013-11-07T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T14:16:09","slug":"a-hard-days-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"A hard day&#8217;s night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well not really but I did do a gig in the early evening at Hartpury last night. A lovely school and they were doing a special evening for parents and children to encourage writing. Tony the Head is an ex pupil of mine (how old does that make me!) and a wonderful charismatic Head.\u00a0I did my Harriet the Hippo story-a very visual story and appeals to all ages. I must try to tidy it up and look to get it illustrated. I didn&#8217;t cycle because I wasn&#8217;t confident about the road in the dark and I had a meeting beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>My dream story continues to evolve. Hopefully over the next month I may have it finished.<\/p>\n<p>I went looking for starling\u00a0murmurations\u00a0on Tuesday but only saw small groups the biggest about 50 birds. Will try again over the next couple of weeks. Have seen a male sparrowhawk\u00a0around the garden a couple of times this week and the tawnys are very vocal at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well not really but I did do a gig in the early evening at Hartpury last night. A lovely school and they were doing a special evening for parents and children to encourage writing. Tony the Head is an ex &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=689\">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-689","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-b7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}