{"id":709,"date":"2013-11-24T19:27:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T19:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=709"},"modified":"2013-11-24T19:27:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T19:27:52","slug":"out-on-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Out on the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well where do I start from when\u00a0I last blogged? First some\u00a0great news to report; Eldest son David rang this week to announce he and Vicky are going to get married. We are both delighted and we popped down to Exeter with champers and flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Youngest has appeared today with Nicola because it is Clare&#8217;s birthday tomorrow. So we treated ourselves to Sunday lunch at the Old Spot. Peter also helped me put my rides onto Strava so I can compare my times with others etc.\u00a0Tomorrow Clare and I are riding back from the Severn Bridge for her birthday.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t mention that farce Down Under!\u00a0I did watch\u00a0quite a bit of the first couple of days but decided not to let the bags under my eyes get any worse once the writing was on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Book Club was great earlier this week where we discussed Testament of Mary over a hearty meal.Last night as a fund-raiser for the community centre in the village we met with other village book groups; each group chose a country and provided wine, food and a reading from a book to share. An enjoyable evening. I had rushed there straight\u00a0from the football, we won 2-1\u00a0! Good to hear what others are reading.<\/p>\n<p>Have a couple more gigs in the pipeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well where do I start from when\u00a0I last blogged? First some\u00a0great news to report; Eldest son David rang this week to announce he and Vicky are going to get married. We are both delighted and we popped down to Exeter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=709\">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-709","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-br","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}