{"id":2344,"date":"2012-07-07T22:14:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T22:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2013-03-19T18:53:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:53:04","slug":"my-mate-the-badger-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/my-mate-the-badger-3\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mate the Badger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Brock probably saw the Romans<br \/>\nThe Cathedral bells rang for all time<br \/>\nForever there&#8217;s been a criss cross trail<br \/>\nStriped black and white face bushy tail<br \/>\nWoodland valleys labyrinths of tunnels underground<br \/>\nDaffodils there yellow yawnings<br \/>\nCountry Lanes there are no warnings<br \/>\nBovine TB don&#8217;t blame brock<br \/>\nIts not old brock now in the dock<br \/>\nSorry, scratching all the time<br \/>\nFresh bedding, cubs born watch them climb<br \/>\nMaking hay, a pastime they<br \/>\nenjoy a nice warm bed to lay<br \/>\nSome sad farmers now do try<br \/>\nTo cull these children<br \/>\nTell me why?<br \/>\nBecause they were here<br \/>\nlong before<br \/>\nThe dairy cow and the stable door<br \/>\nDigging their holes<br \/>\nestablishing setts<br \/>\neating the worms<br \/>\nthe brave lad gets<br \/>\nTo play in the thickets<br \/>\nThe wild mans hard<br \/>\nSo let them live<br \/>\nclose to this bard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shy lad who frequents the countryside and has done for centuries- Leave them alone they are my friends and Dairy Cows are not given TB by them, that&#8217;s to do with feed and care of the cows, both alien really to what ungulates should be fed on and how they should be cared for. <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/my-mate-the-badger-3\/\">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":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","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=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6728,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/6728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}