{"id":1638,"date":"2012-07-21T09:59:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T09:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2012-07-21T09:59:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T09:59:42","slug":"the-raveld-sleeve-of-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"the ravel&#8217;d sleeve of care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone else finding it really difficult to sleep just now?\u00a0 And when I do, I have lollapalooza dreams.\u00a0\u00a0 But how lovely to wake to a sunny day for once, with a gentle breeze.\u00a0 Admittedly this was at 04:18 but it is still fine now at 10:00 exactly.<\/p>\n<p>A moment&#8217;s silence for the dead blue tit we found on the front lawn.\u00a0 Paul gently ushered it off to the great compost heap in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>I made it back to band practice to find new songs waiting, always interesting.\u00a0 I even had to sing some we genuinely had not looked at for months.<\/p>\n<p>People, <em>War Horse<\/em> the play is coming to Edinburgh Festival Theatre in 2014.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the best theatrical experiences I have ever had, even if I did blub copiously the whole way through. <strong>SPOILERS\u00a0<\/strong> The puppetry is masterful, I forgot after about two minutes that it was not a real horse, the choreography of the entire show was extremely tight and even though I had read the book I still was swept away by the whole production and the narrative drive.\u00a0 The only down side is that a very well rendered and professionally excellent show does remind you of how much dross there is out there.\u00a0 #wishihadyourproblems<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone else finding it really difficult to sleep just now?\u00a0 And when I do, I have lollapalooza dreams.\u00a0\u00a0 But how lovely to wake to a sunny day for once, with a gentle breeze.\u00a0 Admittedly this was at 04:18 but it is still fine now at 10:00 exactly. A moment&#8217;s silence for the dead blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-wildlife","category-fife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}