{"id":331,"date":"2017-10-26T07:01:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T07:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2019-05-23T09:42:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:42:51","slug":"merlins-travelling-spell-goes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Merlin&#8217;s Travelling spell goes wrong. Short Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wpsocialite social-buttons large\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?p=331&amp;locale=en_US&amp;t=\" class=\"socialite facebook-like\" data-lang=\"en_US\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?p=331\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"60\" data-show-faces=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"vhidden\">Share on Facebook.<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"socialite twitter-share\" data-text=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?p=331\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-lang=\"en_US\" data-via=\"@birdstoowit\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"vhidden\">Share on Twitter.<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d said a burley man, as he bumped into me on a crowded byway.<\/p>\n<p>I stood up and backed into an open room away from the crowds, but was thrown forward to the floor by an invisible force. \u201cWhat!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCareful,\u201d said the strangely dressed man. \u201cYou\u2019ll break the glass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlass?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man picked me up, \u201cYes glass,\u201d he said, tapping on the invisible barrier. \u201cWhat are you doing, promoting a play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no idea, what is this place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOxford Street. I assume you\u2019re lost, here let me show you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From nowhere he plucked a black box and showed me a picture, all lines and squiggles and red dots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere you are. Where are you going? I\u2019ll set it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here to see King Arthur,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He tapped the black box, \u201cAh yes that\u2019s on at the Odeon, just up on the left past the Virgin shop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUhh thank you.\u201d I replied, a little amazed. \u201cThere\u2019s a shop where they sell virgins, how interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry?\u201d asked the man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing,\u201d I said making my way through the crowed market place, full of people in the strangest garb.<\/p>\n<p>My last travelling spell had obviously transported me to a major town with all these people, but what were those big red square boxes, full of people, moving along the road without horses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the matter with you,\u201d said a young woman as I brushed into her. This one was dressed in more respectable clothes of a lady of the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry, miles away,\u201d literally I thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove the outfit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOutfit? Oh, you mean my clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of copywrite in fringements, you&#8217;ll have to buy the book once published to read more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d said a burley man, as he bumped into me on a crowded byway. I stood up and backed into an open room away from the crowds, but was thrown forward to the floor by an invisible force. \u201cWhat!\u201d \u201cCareful,\u201d said the strangely dressed man. \u201cYou\u2019ll break the glass.\u201d \u201cGlass?\u201d The man picked me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}