{"id":4936,"date":"2011-09-04T01:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=4936"},"modified":"2011-09-05T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T10:00:43","slug":"true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=4936","title":{"rendered":"A Plane and Simple Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the first Sunday in September, that means it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/fromhighinthesky.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/storytelling-sunday-in-which-grandpa.html\">Sian&#8217;s Story Telling Sunday.<\/a> I am so pleased to be joining in again.<br \/>\nThis is a funny little story that came about from an e-mail I sent (to the kind man).<\/p>\n<p>Once there was a man who used to fly model aeroplanes.<br \/>\nHe stopped when he became busy with work and family and his resources were needed elsewhere.<br \/>\nThe man was always interested in flying but that\u2019s as far as he dared to go.<br \/>\nOne day the interested man met a man who still did the flying, they talked about the hobby for a whole evening while the wives ordered more drinks.<br \/>\nThe new man said he would take the interested man to his flying club.<br \/>\nAfter only one afternoon<br \/>\nThe interested man thought he would like to take up the hobby where he left off.<br \/>\nThe new man became a very kind man and lent the interested man lots of aeroplane stuff so that the interested man could become a learner.<br \/>\nThe kind man introduced the interested man to an instructor man.<br \/>\nThe learning man had a lesson at flying but the wheels fell off the airplane so the learner man came home and began to repair the plane so that he could have more lessons.<br \/>\nAfter many rainy days and trips to the model shop the learner man proudly showed the new plane to his wife and she took photos of it.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_4939\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_2872.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4939\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_2872.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2872\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_2872.jpg 500w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_2872-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WAT4<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThe weather man said that Sunday was good for flying so off the learner man went with the instructor man to fly the \u2018new\u2019 model.<br \/>\nThe men spent a very long and happy day doing the learning and the flying and late in the evening the now sun burnt learner man brought his plane home to show his wife so that she could take more pictures.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_4940\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_2921.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4940\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_2921.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2921\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_2921.jpg 500w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_2921-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WAT4 reduced to it's component parts<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nDOH! The radio broke when the instructor man was doing the landing bit!<br \/>\nThe learner man was mortified (and sunburnt) and will buy the kind man a new plane. And build himself another one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And a Layout<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Doh-film1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Doh-film1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Doh film\" width=\"353\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Doh-film1.jpg 353w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Doh-film1-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the first Sunday in September, that means it&#8217;s Sian&#8217;s Story Telling Sunday. I am so pleased to be joining in again. This is a funny little story that came about from an e-mail I sent (to the kind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=4936\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-photoshop","category-true-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4936"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5013,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}