{"id":39042,"date":"2018-10-03T10:54:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T10:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=39042"},"modified":"2018-10-03T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T10:56:25","slug":"penguin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/10\/penguin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Penguin&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT was Noah who found her<br \/>\nUpside down on the grass<br \/>\nSwept out of her nest<br \/>\nAs it came to pass<br \/>\nBy a great hand of wind<br \/>\nAnd off the tall pine<br \/>\nShe fell rolling over<br \/>\nHer life on the line<\/p>\n<p>And there she was<br \/>\nInjured fretful just there<br \/>\nNoah brought her in<br \/>\nShe was in some despair<br \/>\nWe made her a nest<br \/>\nFed her and she<br \/>\nBecame our best friend<br \/>\nOur adoptee<\/p>\n<p>In Oz they are omnivores<br \/>\nSo what we did<br \/>\nWas learn what to feed<br \/>\nHer really in a bid<br \/>\nTo save her and thats<br \/>\nWhat we did in a way<br \/>\nSave her and well<br \/>\nShe did not fly away<\/p>\n<p>Well not forever<br \/>\nFor she always returned<br \/>\nClearly this magpie<br \/>\nWas very concerned<br \/>\nWith mum Sam and everyone<br \/>\nWe let her be<br \/>\nFree as a bird<br \/>\nBut in our family<\/p>\n<p>Mum wasnt well<br \/>\nShe had sufferred and she<br \/>\nCouldnt walk well<br \/>\nInjured she be<br \/>\nIn these circumstances<br \/>\nHope is a thing<br \/>\nAnd this little angel<br \/>\nGreat joy she did bring<\/p>\n<p>Encouraging us all<br \/>\nIn her bird like way<br \/>\nTo think on the bright side<br \/>\nAnd help every day<br \/>\nShe would come in at six<br \/>\nShe would sleep on our bed<br \/>\nShe would sing<br \/>\nShe would bring<br \/>\nAll the joys yes instead<\/p>\n<p>Of depression of soreness<br \/>\nShe gave us hope<br \/>\nOne little magpie<br \/>\nShe helped us to cope<br \/>\nTo see all the good<br \/>\nThat is out there today<br \/>\nAnd to banish the blues<br \/>\nAnd the sadness Away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT was Noah who found her Upside down on the grass Swept out of her nest As it came to pass By a great hand of wind And off the tall pine She fell rolling over Her life on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/10\/penguin\/\">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":[344,89,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-australia-and-the-epic-journeys","category-magpie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39042","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=39042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39044,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39042\/revisions\/39044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}