{"id":24412,"date":"2015-11-06T19:49:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T19:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=24412"},"modified":"2015-11-06T19:52:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T19:52:41","slug":"earl-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/earl-grey\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl grey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great Earl grey<br \/>\nVisited Susan today<br \/>\nBound for sub saharan Africa<br \/>\nThats what  he did say<br \/>\nWith his yellow and green<br \/>\nTailored shirt<br \/>\nAnd black legs all the way<br \/>\nUp to his graceful body<br \/>\nWagging and au fait<\/p>\n<p>With the routes he would be taking<br \/>\nAcross the oceans blue<br \/>\nAcross the great red mountains<br \/>\nRising from the dew<br \/>\nHe is, now on the red list<br \/>\nIs he going  to the wall<br \/>\nHe says it has been difficult<br \/>\nReally for one and all<\/p>\n<p>A 43 per cent drop in numbers<br \/>\nWhich is bad<br \/>\nSpring was cold<br \/>\nAnd summer wet<br \/>\nAnd really he feels sad<\/p>\n<p>Reaching Susans garden<br \/>\nHis  favourite interlude<br \/>\nBefore the long long journey<br \/>\nTo meet up with his brood<\/p>\n<p>His wings well oiled and ready<br \/>\nHis feet no corns at all<br \/>\nHis eyes as clear as a sunny day<br \/>\nJust waiting for his friend to call<\/p>\n<p>And he a yellow wagtail<br \/>\nDancing as he does<br \/>\nWaiting for the love of his life<br \/>\nWho just gives him a buzz<br \/>\nHe wags his tail for no one<br \/>\nBetter than this lass<br \/>\nAnd they are off to Africa<br \/>\nIf they have, enough gas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great Earl grey Visited Susan today Bound for sub saharan Africa Thats what he did say With his yellow and green Tailored shirt And black legs all the way Up to his graceful body Wagging and au fait With &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/earl-grey\/\">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":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wild-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24412","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=24412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24416,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24412\/revisions\/24416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}