{"id":8067,"date":"2025-11-16T21:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8067"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:16:06","slug":"rain-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8067","title":{"rendered":"Rain!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday was an awful day weather wise and it rained persistently for 24 hours. We managed to get to Bristol for Gloucestershire Seniors Cricket Dinner. An excellent evening!<\/p>\n<p>Sadly Saturday\u2019s football was a cure for insomnia it was so boring. The pictures below are from \u00a0the week before at Stockport. See if you can pick me out for some reason I\u2019m not smiling.<\/p>\n<p>Currently we are away enjoying the company of our granddaughter (and her parents).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4d449c37-1556-4510-a7c1-a66862d563d5.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8068\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8068\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4d449c37-1556-4510-a7c1-a66862d563d5.jpeg?fit=1440%2C1440&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1440,1440\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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We managed to get to Bristol for Gloucestershire Seniors Cricket Dinner. An excellent evening! Sadly Saturday\u2019s football was a cure for insomnia it was so boring. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8067\">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-8067","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-267","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067","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=8067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8070,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions\/8070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}