{"id":8545,"date":"2026-08-22T21:20:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8545"},"modified":"2026-08-22T21:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:20:37","slug":"sporting-and-gramps-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8545","title":{"rendered":"Sporting and Gramps Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a busy week for me. We were busy for the the first three days of the week having fun and looking after our two young grandsons <strong>Owen<\/strong> and <strong>Robin.<\/strong> We visited <strong>Slimbridge<\/strong> on Monday and <strong>Owen<\/strong> was delighted to spot a distant <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Heron<\/strong> <\/span>and a <strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Lapwing<\/span><\/strong>! They enjoyed playing in <strong>Welly Boot Land<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Thursday and Friday I went to <strong>Cheltenham<\/strong> to watch <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Gloucestershire<\/strong><\/span> playing cricket. I went with my two sons on Thursday and cycled there on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Today I watched the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Mighty Hatters<\/strong><\/span> being held to a draw.. We were frustrated by the petty fouls and an incompetent referee. Off to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Chelsea<\/strong> <\/span>on Thursday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a busy week for me. We were busy for the the first three days of the week having fun and looking after our two young grandsons Owen and Robin. We visited Slimbridge on Monday and Owen was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8545\">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-8545","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-2dP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545","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=8545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8546,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545\/revisions\/8546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}