{"id":21055,"date":"2015-05-12T20:41:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21055"},"modified":"2015-05-12T20:44:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:44:42","slug":"21055","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/05\/21055\/","title":{"rendered":"After the hounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crimson jacketed prince of rogues<br \/>\nWith their whips and caps and fancy brogues<br \/>\nExpletives here expletives there<br \/>\nWhen the sabs are near it&#8217;s everywhere<br \/>\nExhibitionists  that&#8217;s their plea<br \/>\nIts all  about balance<br \/>\nAnd how to be<br \/>\nThe equilibrium of it all<br \/>\nIs based on the hunters clarion call<\/p>\n<p>If you happen to be living where they hunt<br \/>\nIf you have a sweet cat or any such runt<br \/>\nThe hounds will get them when chasing, they<br \/>\nWill pick them off in their dogged way<br \/>\nDisembowel them at a stroke<br \/>\nThe ruthless grim faced hounds that choke<br \/>\nOn  the blood and fur of the vixen who<br \/>\nDies a death both vile and true<\/p>\n<p>Their horses leap over stile and fence<br \/>\nHonestly it makes no sense<br \/>\nTheir Clatter of hooves down the gravely lane<br \/>\nWith the yelping hounds and their dire refrain<\/p>\n<p>Some of the upper crust gentry who<br \/>\nMight be the magistrate a squire or two<br \/>\nThe ploughman and the low born class<br \/>\nWho wouldn&#8217;t be out there on the grass<br \/>\nWhittling sticks and polishing brass<\/p>\n<p>If you say anything hubristic retorts<br \/>\nAnd they don&#8217;t only hunt in the worst of resorts<br \/>\nNo fox  gets lucky when they are on the prowl<br \/>\nThey had best just turn turtle and talk to my owl<\/p>\n<p>Blood on their fingers<br \/>\nBlood on their hands<br \/>\nIts just a wonder<br \/>\nThere are no demands<br \/>\nFor crimson coated infidels<br \/>\nWho strike us dead<br \/>\nAfter the hounds<br \/>\nIt has to be said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crimson jacketed prince of rogues With their whips and caps and fancy brogues Expletives here expletives there When the sabs are near it&#8217;s everywhere Exhibitionists that&#8217;s their plea Its all about balance And how to be The equilibrium of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/05\/21055\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-fox-hunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21055","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=21055"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21060,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21055\/revisions\/21060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}