{"id":8514,"date":"2026-07-17T10:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8514"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:38:52","slug":"odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8514","title":{"rendered":"Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I can&#8217;t ignore all the hype about the new film- it is a story I know well and is among the many <strong>Greek Myths<\/strong> I tell. Last year I read <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Circe<\/strong> <\/span>by<strong> Madeline Miller<\/strong> who gives a damming feminist view of <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Odysseus!<\/strong><\/span> I am looking forward to watching the film. The reviews are positive!<\/p>\n<p>On the story telling front it was busy at the end of last week with 3 gigs in 3 days. I also told stories to young people from <strong>Sunderland<\/strong> last night at <strong>Wick Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sadly the football ended up in disappointment- seems like <strong>England<\/strong> shouldn&#8217;t score too early! We appear to always end up trying to defend our lead instead of going for another goal.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday I lead a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Gloucestershire Seniors Cricket Team\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>team to <strong>Andoversford<\/strong> to celebrate <strong>Andoversford Cricket Club<\/strong> 125th birthday. A lovely day played in a celebratory spirit. I of course gave myself a bowl and took two wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I can&#8217;t ignore all the hype about the new film- it is a story I know well and is among the many Greek Myths I tell. Last year I read Circe by Madeline Miller who gives a damming feminist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8514\">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-8514","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\/s2D5Gc-odyssey","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514","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=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8515,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}