{"id":22120,"date":"2015-07-16T21:11:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T21:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=22120"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:28:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:28:26","slug":"hunting-north-of-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/hunting-north-of-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting north of the border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The green swards of Scotland<br \/>\nA fox in full flight<br \/>\nThrough the wire fence<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s out of sight<br \/>\nIn the low brush<br \/>\nBack into the light<br \/>\nAnd here comes  the cavalry<br \/>\nA grey and a white<br \/>\nAnd here comes the hounds<br \/>\nYelping away<br \/>\nSkittish and daft in their so called<br \/>\nHound way<br \/>\nStretched out and running<br \/>\nThe fox out a head<br \/>\nOver a metal fence<br \/>\nIts has seen red<br \/>\nThe league against cruel sports<br \/>\nGave us this stuff<br \/>\nAll the fear and suspense<br \/>\nWe have all seen enough<\/p>\n<p>A lone male<br \/>\nChased hither<br \/>\nFlushing To guns<br \/>\nBut no guns around<br \/>\nThere just the son of sons<br \/>\nAnd uncle tom cobley<br \/>\nHunting the law<br \/>\nThats what they do<br \/>\nNo wonder we are sore<\/p>\n<p>There are laws up here to<br \/>\nBut hunters believe<br \/>\nThey make and break laws<br \/>\nThats how they achieve<br \/>\nOnce you wear crimson<br \/>\nAnd speak like a toff<br \/>\nThats when you can just pull<br \/>\nAnything off<br \/>\nThe coppers won&#8217;t<br \/>\nsee you<br \/>\nThey tend to look away<br \/>\nGet on with the process<br \/>\nWith nothing to say<br \/>\nThe fox many run like the clappers away<br \/>\nBut some get a hiding get bloodied and pay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The green swards of Scotland A fox in full flight Through the wire fence He&#8217;s out of sight In the low brush Back into the light And here comes the cavalry A grey and a white And here comes the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/hunting-north-of-the-border\/\">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":[114,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fox-hunting","category-foxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22120","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=22120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60832,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22120\/revisions\/60832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}