{"id":7979,"date":"2025-09-14T15:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7979"},"modified":"2025-09-14T15:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:32:42","slug":"echoes-of-pig-the-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7979","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of Pig The Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will know I wrote a book called <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Pig The Legend.<\/strong><\/span> It was story inspired by the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Siege Of Gloucester<\/strong> <\/span>during the <strong>English Civil War.<\/strong> Today as part of the <strong>Heritage Open Days<\/strong> we went on a guided walk around <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Siege of Gloucester<\/strong><\/span> sites. It was an excellent walk and I was pleased I didn&#8217;t make an glaring errors with my book. Might of helped with some extra background to the book. A picture of the book cover below. (you can still get copies from me- sadly my first book <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t Look At Me Like That<\/strong><\/span> has now sold out.)<\/p>\n<p>We had a real soaking on Friday cycling into <strong>Stroud<\/strong>! It is certainly different to the cycling in the heat over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>To say I was disappointed with yesterday&#8217;s football would be an understatement. The defending by <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>The Mighty Hatters<\/strong> <\/span>was pathetic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/310677593.gallery.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7981\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7981\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/310677593.gallery.jpg?fit=1200%2C1842&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1842\" 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=\"310677593.gallery\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/310677593.gallery.jpg?fit=584%2C897&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7981\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/310677593.gallery.jpg?resize=504%2C770&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"770\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will know I wrote a book called Pig The Legend. It was story inspired by the Siege Of Gloucester during the English Civil War. Today as part of the Heritage Open Days we went on a guided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7979\">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-7979","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-24H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979","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=7979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7982,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions\/7982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}