{"id":7237,"date":"2024-10-09T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7237"},"modified":"2024-10-09T15:36:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:36:59","slug":"water-water-everywhere-but-no-stopping-joe-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7237","title":{"rendered":"Water, water everywhere but no stopping Joe Root!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aftermath of yesterday&#8217;s rain has left loads of standing water everywhere. I ventured to <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> this morning and the moat was completely full covering the stones at the side completely so my <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>grey wagtail<\/strong> <\/span>we have seen the last two weeks has nowhere to go!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/grey-wagtail.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7238\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7238\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/grey-wagtail.jpg?fit=2000%2C1339&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1339\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"grey wagtail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/grey-wagtail.jpg?fit=584%2C391&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7238\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/grey-wagtail.jpg?resize=393%2C268&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cricket from <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Pakistan<\/strong><\/span> is a run fest (low scoring games are usually more interesting). You have to take your hat off to <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Joe Root<\/strong><\/span> now the highest scoring English Test batsman! Some of his cover drives and <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>Harry Brook&#8217;s<\/strong> <\/span>were exquisite to watch!<\/p>\n<p>Blog maybe intermittent over the next few days as we will be in Southern Italy so I can only blog on my phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aftermath of yesterday&#8217;s rain has left loads of standing water everywhere. I ventured to Wick Court this morning and the moat was completely full covering the stones at the side completely so my grey wagtail we have seen the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7237\">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-7237","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-1SJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237","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=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7239,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions\/7239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}