{"id":8509,"date":"2026-07-06T18:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2026-07-06T18:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:45:47","slug":"is-it-coming-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8509","title":{"rendered":"Is It Coming Home???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tired here in Frampton after an amazing night watching the football. What a game <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Mexico<\/span> v <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">England<\/span><\/strong> was! <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>England<\/strong> <\/span>battled through adversity (altitude and losing a player to a red card) to win in the formidable <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Aztec Stadium<\/strong><\/span>. I was really gripped by the football and thought every player for England performed well. Of course <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>France<\/strong> <\/span>and <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Spain<\/strong> <\/span>look really strong. It is the hope that gets you!<\/p>\n<p>I am playing cricket again tomorrow and hoping we will get through the heat. Think we will get this one in- the weather has plagued my Tuesday cricket this season!<\/p>\n<p>All my story telling is booked for the end of this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tired here in Frampton after an amazing night watching the football. What a game Mexico v England was! England battled through adversity (altitude and losing a player to a red card) to win in the formidable Aztec Stadium. I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8509\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8509","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-2df","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509","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=8509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8510,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions\/8510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}