{"id":8621,"date":"2026-10-22T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2026-10-22T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:38:09","slug":"stories-birds-bikes-and-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8621","title":{"rendered":"Stories, Birds, Bikes and Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title says it all!<\/p>\n<p>Had a lovely ride down to\u00a0<strong> Arlingham<\/strong> with fellow <strong>Bookies<\/strong> to explore the recently reopened <strong>Passage Inn.<\/strong> Lovely ride and and pints at the end!<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night travelled up to watch the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Mighty Hatters<\/strong><\/span> get back to winning ways! Telling statistic is we have had 45 shots in the last two games and have only scored 3! One day surely we will score a hatful!<\/p>\n<p>Despite a wet first part of the Wednesday we had a lovely bird watch at <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> with young people from the centre of <strong>Gloucester.<\/strong> I&#8217;ve just got back from telling stories to them this evening and they were a lovely attentive audience. Off to our first quiz match later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title says it all! Had a lovely ride down to\u00a0 Arlingham with fellow Bookies to explore the recently reopened Passage Inn. Lovely ride and and pints at the end! Tuesday night travelled up to watch the Mighty Hatters get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8621\">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-8621","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-2f3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621","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=8621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8622,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions\/8622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}