{"id":8152,"date":"2026-01-07T21:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:43:02","slug":"new-year-at-wick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8152","title":{"rendered":"New Year at Wick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/curlew_1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8153\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8153\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/curlew_1.jpg?fit=550%2C367&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"550,367\" 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=\"curlew_1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/curlew_1.jpg?fit=550%2C367&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8153\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/curlew_1.jpg?resize=575%2C391&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Old picture of a <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>curlew<\/strong><\/span> i had taken above. I have put it in because for the first time in a while we had <strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">curlews<\/span><\/strong> on the river at <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> (there are usually plenty on the other side of the horseshoe bend but not so often on this side.)<\/p>\n<p>Children also saw <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>lapwings<\/strong><\/span> and plenty of other birds. Lovely young people who asked some super questions. I am story telling with them tomorrow which I am looking forward to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old picture of a curlew i had taken above. I have put it in because for the first time in a while we had curlews on the river at Wick Court (there are usually plenty on the other side of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8152\">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-8152","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-27u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152","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=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8154,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions\/8154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}