{"id":1127,"date":"2015-06-17T18:35:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T18:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-699740-3928655.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2023-10-27T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T11:28:58","slug":"a-story-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/a-story-of-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"A Story of Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TAILS-ALPUJARRAS1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3528\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u201cTortoise had become so demoralised by other, faster, nimbler animals bullying him that he lost all his self-confidence. Instead of feeling calm and unhurried and savouring every instant of Now, he yearned to be fast like cool, streetwise Hare.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not good to be a tortoise, he told himself.<\/p>\n<p>So Tortoise went into a decline, sitting around moping and beating himself up.<\/p>\n<p>One day Frog hopped by. \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Want to read on?<\/p>\n<p>Then why not help abandoned and distraught animals in Southern Spain by buying a copy of <a title=\"Tails of the Alpujarras\" href=\"http:\/\/luddington.com\/tails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tails of the Alpujarras<\/a>, a special collection of stories sold in aid of <a title=\"Valle Verde Animal Rescue\" href=\"http:\/\/valleverdeanimalrescue.org\/%20        \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valle Verde Animal Rescue Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to my fun story The Tortoise and The Hare (a New Age spoof with a serious heart), the book features contributions by best-selling authors Chris Stewart (Driving Over Lemons), Victoria Twead (The Old Fools in Spain Series), David Luddington (Forever England) and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Mirador Publishing are donating all profits to the Valle Verde Animal Rescue fund.<\/p>\n<p>More info and Amazon links <a href=\"http:\/\/luddington.com\/tails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TAILS-ALPUJARRAS1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1130\" src=\"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TAILS-ALPUJARRAS1-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"TAILS ALPUJARRAS\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTortoise had become so demoralised by other, faster, nimbler animals bullying him that he lost all his self-confidence. Instead of feeling calm and unhurried and savouring every instant of Now, he yearned to be fast like cool, streetwise Hare. It\u2019s not good to be a tortoise, he told himself. So Tortoise went into a decline, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[8,22,23],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}