{"id":7848,"date":"2025-06-29T10:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T10:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7848"},"modified":"2025-06-29T10:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T10:31:13","slug":"sugar-mountain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7848","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using the <strong>Neil Young<\/strong> song for the title for today&#8217;s blog. I watched him last night on TV playing at <strong>Glastonbury<\/strong>. He certainly still can rock even as an old man. I remember at parties and gatherings in my youth we would often play <span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>&#8220;After the Gold Rush&#8221;<\/strong><\/span>. I am listening to it now as I write!<\/p>\n<p>I managed to get through my club game of cricket yesterday and even managed a sprightly innings of 24. I have always\u00a0 felt more comfortable batting against quicker bowlers than the slow bowlers we face in old man&#8217;s cricket.\u00a0 Almost took what would of been a great catch to a ball that was certainly travelling! I have been anxious about my hamstring particularly running between the wickets. On to Tuesday and a game against <strong>Kent<\/strong> for the <strong>Seniors!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the Neil Young song for the title for today&#8217;s blog. I watched him last night on TV playing at Glastonbury. He certainly still can rock even as an old man. I remember at parties and gatherings in my youth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7848\">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-7848","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-22A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848","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=7848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7849,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848\/revisions\/7849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}