{"id":34024,"date":"2017-09-23T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T11:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=34024"},"modified":"2017-09-23T12:43:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T12:43:39","slug":"ortolan-buntings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/09\/ortolan-buntings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ortolan Buntings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guormands a name applied to those<br \/>\nWith impure thoughts<br \/>\nWhose shameless nose<br \/>\nWhose grossness and salacious ways<br \/>\nOffer a bawdy unwholesome phase<br \/>\nCalled murder in the first degree<br \/>\nThe Ortolan Bunting a bird who be<br \/>\nMigrating to Africa every year<br \/>\nAnd is netted in Landes in France<br \/>\nI hear.<\/p>\n<p>The choralling sweetness so freely shared<br \/>\nIs violated and rarely spared<br \/>\nThough banned in 1999<br \/>\nLike fox hunting here<br \/>\nThe bastards dine<br \/>\nOn chaffinch and<br \/>\nBrambling and Goldfinch too<br \/>\nAnd the ortolan screams<br \/>\nIts lifetime through<\/p>\n<p>Such fear is caused to the victims who<br \/>\nHave their eyes put out for what they do<br \/>\nTo create eternal night so they<br \/>\nHave no thoughts to fly away<br \/>\nForce fed to increase their fat reserves<br \/>\nGavage a villianous play on nerves<br \/>\nDrowned in Armagnac marination<br \/>\nThe unrelenting constipation<br \/>\nReady to roast 8 minutes or more<br \/>\nOf gathering clouds and ensuing gore<\/p>\n<p>Half a million are caught and killed<br \/>\nChomped and chewed their blood is spilled<br \/>\nBy bitchy cussed viperous scruffs<br \/>\nScowling snarling barking buffs<br \/>\nUnable to see the beauty they<br \/>\nThe billing and cooing and loving way<br \/>\nThey share their songs on a cloudy morn<br \/>\nRepayed by a squalid net at dawn<\/p>\n<p>Such churlishness that they display<br \/>\nA napkin worn in such a way<br \/>\nTo prevent the juices evaporating<br \/>\nThese gluttons are just celebrating<br \/>\nTheir destruction of a soul<br \/>\nCreated to sing and to roundly tell<br \/>\nTheir story to the world at large<br \/>\nWith their fashionable camouflage<\/p>\n<p>The arrogance of these French men<br \/>\nSo much baggage really when<br \/>\nCharacterless such odious creeps<br \/>\nFrom their pores the evil seeps<br \/>\nThey demean themselves in the coarsest way<br \/>\nWith illegal dishes for which they pay<br \/>\nA ransom that discredits all<br \/>\nAnd take their own eyes off the ball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guormands a name applied to those With impure thoughts Whose shameless nose Whose grossness and salacious ways Offer a bawdy unwholesome phase Called murder in the first degree The Ortolan Bunting a bird who be Migrating to Africa every year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/09\/ortolan-buntings\/\">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":[173,137,102,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-birds-and-the-environment","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-wild-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34024","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=34024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34026,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34024\/revisions\/34026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}