{"id":7433,"date":"2025-01-16T17:09:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7433"},"modified":"2025-01-16T17:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:09:38","slug":"wicked-wassail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7433","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Wassail!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Last night I led the <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Wassail<\/strong> <\/span>at <strong>Wick Court-<\/strong> using my updated verse! We had <em><strong>&#8220;wicked time&#8221;<\/strong> <\/em>to quote one of the young people from <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Ravenstone Primary School.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 Our event is certainly idiosyncratic but the more I read about the history of <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>wassail<\/strong><\/span> the more convinced I am that you can do your own thing! I kept some of the local traditions but wrote a verse that incorporated <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> in it.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day I took the young people bird watching (it was foggy) but we saw quite a bit. They were delighted to see a <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>raven<\/strong><\/span> as it chimed with their school name!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Club<\/strong> last night (after the wassail) was different we all had to talk about our favourite character from literature.\u00a0 It was a wide ranging discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Finally some pictures of garden visitors today!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/P1040185.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7435\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7435\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/P1040185.jpg?fit=2388%2C1397&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2388,1397\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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We had &#8220;wicked time&#8221; to quote one of the young people from Ravenstone Primary School.\u00a0 Our event is certainly idiosyncratic but the more I read about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7433\">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-7433","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-1VT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7433","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=7433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7439,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7433\/revisions\/7439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}