{"id":37431,"date":"2018-07-20T06:57:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T06:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37431"},"modified":"2018-07-20T07:33:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T07:33:43","slug":"laying-traps-for-badgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/07\/laying-traps-for-badgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Laying traps for badgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ancestral home<br \/>\nWhere wonderment<br \/>\nAnd countryside expertise<br \/>\nGenerates  a home of homes<br \/>\nWhere brocks can carefully ease<br \/>\nTheir bodies<br \/>\nThrough dug tunnels<br \/>\nIn sandy soil or clay<br \/>\nOn slopes or hillsides<br \/>\nClose to woodland<br \/>\nTo find some peace and quiet<br \/>\nAll day<\/p>\n<p>Laying traps for any reason<br \/>\nIs contemptuous and wrong<br \/>\nIn the countryside where wildness<br \/>\nAnd survival does belong<br \/>\nWhere respect is keenly followed<br \/>\nIts saddening to see<br \/>\nHunt masters laying traps<br \/>\nWhere badger families be<\/p>\n<p>Unworthiness of being<br \/>\nPitiability<br \/>\nand a lack of understanding<br \/>\nIs insulting actually<br \/>\nCountrymen should have scruples<br \/>\nCountryman should care<br \/>\nCountenance the wild beasts<br \/>\nThat actually do share<\/p>\n<p>Not take on an artfulness<br \/>\nAnd spivvery of old<br \/>\nWith a dose of double dealing<br \/>\nAnd betrayal that is  rolled<br \/>\nUp in pure chicanery<br \/>\nFor want of a better word<br \/>\nThe treachery of creating fear<br \/>\nFor clearly that occurred<\/p>\n<p>Offering wild souls peanuts<br \/>\nReturning hopefully<br \/>\nPossibly an ego trip<br \/>\nSo saddening to me<br \/>\nThe sanctity of  wildness<br \/>\nIn peril thanks to you<br \/>\nA man who screams integrity<br \/>\nWhen iniquity is true<\/p>\n<p>A hunter of the innocent<br \/>\nThose of the crimson brush<br \/>\nImmaculate and undefiled<br \/>\nImpeccably a rush<br \/>\nOf fear is generated<br \/>\nAs the hounds begin to run<br \/>\nAs the hunter pipes his clarion<br \/>\nAt his sinning in the sun<\/p>\n<p>Transgressing from legality<br \/>\nInto the realms of sin<br \/>\nShamefaced masked up bounders<br \/>\nWhose case is wearing thin<br \/>\nNo better than the quislings<br \/>\nFelons actually<br \/>\nWho all pretend they are men of class<br \/>\nWith their dark morality<\/p>\n<p>The badger thankfully got away<br \/>\nKarma on his side<br \/>\nFaultless in so many ways<br \/>\nThe hunt master denied<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ancestral home Where wonderment And countryside expertise Generates a home of homes Where brocks can carefully ease Their bodies Through dug tunnels In sandy soil or clay On slopes or hillsides Close to woodland To find some peace and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/07\/laying-traps-for-badgers\/\">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":[344,173,119,114,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-badgers","category-fox-hunting","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37431","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=37431"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37440,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37431\/revisions\/37440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}