{"id":6896,"date":"2024-05-12T16:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T16:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6896"},"modified":"2024-05-12T16:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T16:39:05","slug":"down-but-not-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6896","title":{"rendered":"Down But Not Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the inevitable happened yesterday the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Mighty Hatters<\/strong> <\/span>were sadly relegated from the <strong>Premier League<\/strong> after losing at <strong>West Ham.<\/strong> I know I am biased but I think we have been a breath of fresh air to this league that often forgets its roots. Some pictures from yesterday below including me with <strong>Tom Lockyer<\/strong> our captain who unfortunately had that cardiac arrest last November- a moment to remind us that football isn&#8217;t really that important. It was emotional when the players and all the staff came over to the fans at the end to applaud them and they got a fifteen minute ovation from the travelling faithful. One picture sent to me by my friend <strong>Colin<\/strong> (a screenshot from <strong>Match of The Day<\/strong>) is of me and others around me looking glum!<\/p>\n<p>I have been at <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Wick Court Blossom Day<\/strong><\/span> today doing some bird watching with anyone who wanted to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_5521-rotated.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6897\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=6897\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_5521-rotated.jpg?fit=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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I know I am biased but I think we have been a breath of fresh air to this league that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6896\">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-6896","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-1Ne","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896","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=6896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6900,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}