{"id":7385,"date":"2024-12-18T16:44:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T16:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2024-12-18T16:44:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T16:44:49","slug":"christmas-angels-take-347","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7385","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Angels Take 347!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was telling stories today at a care home in <strong>Nailsworth.<\/strong> I finished with my own story <strong><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">C<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">hri<\/span><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">st<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">mas<\/span> <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">Ang<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">els<\/span><\/strong> which I originally wrote a lifetime ago. I am very fond of it as a story it was originally written as a challenge with friends then developed into a story for telling in school. However it has been performed in the <strong>pub<\/strong> and to <strong>W.I.s<\/strong> throughout the county. It was ideal for the care home &#8211; we all sang <strong>&#8220;Hark the Herald Angels&#8221;<\/strong> as well! Last gig tomorrow in <strong>Cheltenham<\/strong> also a care home so I am doing the same three stories I told today &#8211; cuts down on preparation time!<\/p>\n<p>Finally I caught a glimpse of a male <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>sparrowhawk <\/strong><\/span>flying through the garden yesterday. Thankfully for my small birds in the garden it has been a while since I spotted one in the garden. Picture below of a previous visit!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/P1010112.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7386\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7386\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/P1010112.jpg?fit=1460%2C1899&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1460,1899\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-FZ330&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1598328973&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;108&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1010112\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/P1010112.jpg?fit=584%2C760&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7386\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/P1010112.jpg?resize=468%2C601&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"601\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was telling stories today at a care home in Nailsworth. I finished with my own story Christmas Angels which I originally wrote a lifetime ago. I am very fond of it as a story it was originally written as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7385\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7385","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-1V7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385","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=7385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7387,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions\/7387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}