{"id":7995,"date":"2025-09-28T19:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7995"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:01:54","slug":"measure-for-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7995","title":{"rendered":"Measure For Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a wonderful weekend for<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong> Beer and Books<\/strong><\/span> in <strong>Stratford.<\/strong> Four of us had a wonderful cycle up on Friday. The weather was fair and our ride was punctuated by stops for cakes and soup. We thoroughly enjoyed watching <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Measure for Measure<\/strong> <\/span>at the <strong>RSC Theatre.<\/strong> Not a play I knew and this production was certainly inventive. The acting and the set were first class. We are lucky to be reasonably close to <strong>Stratford<\/strong> and over the years have seen many original productions.<\/p>\n<p>All of us thoroughly enjoyed our weekend- our <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Book Club<\/strong> <\/span>is now twenty years old!<\/p>\n<p>My body is aching now after the ride back! Didn&#8217;t get off to the best start found I had a puncture &#8211; every time I pumped it up\u00a0 the pump ripped out the valve letting the air out! We eventually got away!<\/p>\n<p>My football team even managed to win without me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a wonderful weekend for Beer and Books in Stratford. Four of us had a wonderful cycle up on Friday. The weather was fair and our ride was punctuated by stops for cakes and soup. We thoroughly enjoyed watching Measure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7995\">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-7995","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-24X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995","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=7995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7996,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions\/7996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}