{"id":7117,"date":"2024-08-05T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T17:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2024-08-05T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T17:34:09","slug":"yaffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7117","title":{"rendered":"Yaffle!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delighted to see an immature <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>green woodpecker<\/strong><\/span> in our garden this morning. We haven&#8217;t seen one for a while in the garden (the great spotted is a much more frequent visitor) Some pictures of our visitor below. I do remember being thrilled when I first moved to <strong>Stroud<\/strong> seeing this bird regularly on a nearby school field. I had meant to put out a sign in the garden for them saying &#8220;<em>Plenty of delicious ants here for yaffles!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have just finished reading <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Circe<\/strong><\/span> by <strong>Madeline Miller.<\/strong> An interesting and certainly different\u00a0 viewpoint on the Greek hero\u00a0 <strong>Odysseus<\/strong> . Not quite as good as her <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Song of Achilles<\/strong> <\/span>but a good read and I was gripped reading it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1040044-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7118\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7118\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1040044-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C2305&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,2305\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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We haven&#8217;t seen one for a while in the garden (the great spotted is a much more frequent visitor) Some pictures of our visitor below. I do remember &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7117\">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-7117","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\/s2D5Gc-yaffle","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117","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=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7122,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions\/7122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}