{"id":105,"date":"2011-11-13T22:26:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T22:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2011-11-13T22:26:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T22:26:40","slug":"a-turkeys-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/a-turkeys-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"A Turkey&#8217;s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">Once I was proud<br \/>\nI stood out in the crowd<br \/>\nWith my great crimson comb<br \/>\nAnd my feathers of black<br \/>\n<!--more-->I strutted about<br \/>\nThere was never a doubt<br \/>\nI was King of the castle<br \/>\nI was<\/p>\n<p>Then December was here<br \/>\nYule logs and good cheer<br \/>\nand well<br \/>\njust because<br \/>\nI was doomed<br \/>\nall of us, really<br \/>\nwere chased and despatched<br \/>\nI ran and I ran<br \/>\nand I scratched and<br \/>\nI scratched<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t ready<br \/>\nto die for a cause<br \/>\nI was just hoping<br \/>\nto have a short pause<br \/>\nBut his hands<br \/>\nwere round my throat<br \/>\nThe air I could feel<br \/>\nWas leaving me<br \/>\nrapidly<br \/>\nSpare me!!<br \/>\nAppeal<\/p>\n<p>Too late<br \/>\nI was gone<br \/>\nmy soul<br \/>\nsailed in the air<br \/>\nLooking down<br \/>\nMy poor body<br \/>\nJust lifeless despair<\/p>\n<p>my feathers<br \/>\nwere gorgeous<br \/>\nand black<br \/>\nBut I would<br \/>\nsoon lay<br \/>\nin the shed<br \/>\nat the back<br \/>\nall of my feathers gone<br \/>\njust naked skin<br \/>\nmy feet chopped<br \/>\nmy head chopped<br \/>\nOh what a sin<\/p>\n<p>of man yes enormous<br \/>\nI wanted to live!<br \/>\nTo run around the farm yard<br \/>\nI wanted to give<br \/>\nThe females a taste<br \/>\nof my semen but I<br \/>\nreluctantly<br \/>\ntragically<br \/>\njust<br \/>\nhad<br \/>\nto die<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once I was proud I stood out in the crowd With my great crimson comb And my feathers of black<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-stories","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}