{"id":51,"date":"2007-07-01T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T09:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2007-07-01T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T09:55:03","slug":"holding-out-for-a-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Holding out for a Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"

there’s been so much going on I’ll have to do a piece-meal catch-up<\/em><\/p>\n

We spent yesterday evening at\u00c2\u00a0Stafford (not Stratford!) Castle, Staffordshire.<\/p>\n

First we stopped off for an early evening meal at the Yew Tree Inn, a brilliant little ‘find’ tucked away in the countryside.<\/p>\n

Sadly the\u00c2\u00a0options available to me lacked choice but the one vegetarian dish on the menu was absolutely brilliant.<\/p>\n

After the meal we drove to the Castle where we enjoyed an open air\u00c2\u00a0production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to review the play, I’m not as qualified as The Lovely S.<\/p>\n

I will say that I enjoyed it; the front- and back-of-house team made the comedy come alive.<\/p>\n

The worst of the rainy\/windy weather held off, and we drove home full of comment and conversation about the wonderful evening we’d just enjoyed.<\/p>\n

But…<\/p>\n

Although I enjoyed the play…<\/p>\n

I feel as though Shakespeare could have done with a bloody good editor.<\/p>\n

Some of the scenes were overlong, too wordy and not particularly focussed on the plot.<\/p>\n

But it wasn’t\u00c2\u00a0a bad Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

I feel very sanctimonious having not spent the evening lounging about in front of the television!<\/p>\n

Brennig<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

there’s been so much going on I’ll have to do a piece-meal catch-up We spent yesterday evening at\u00c2\u00a0Stafford (not Stratford!) Castle, Staffordshire. First we stopped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}