{"id":39137,"date":"2018-10-08T10:27:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T10:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=39137"},"modified":"2018-10-08T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T10:30:15","slug":"the-little-yellow-hammer-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-little-yellow-hammer-message\/","title":{"rendered":"The little yellow hammer&#8217;s  message after BREXIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A yellow hammer just a little bird<br \/>\nFrom long ago<br \/>\nNature created its refrain<br \/>\nIts song we all loved so<br \/>\nFlitting across wide habitats<br \/>\nInto landscapes where<br \/>\nEvery little bunting<br \/>\nJust cast  away despair<\/p>\n<p>Poets from a former time<br \/>\nNoted its sweet song<br \/>\nAnd it appeared in verses<br \/>\nWhere it did belong<br \/>\nSaid now to be red listed<br \/>\nPart down to the EU<br \/>\nThe intensive farming principled<br \/>\nThat kind of went askew<\/p>\n<p>Stewardship schemes<br \/>\nCame into play<br \/>\nAnd after BREXIT we<br \/>\nHave the where for all to ensure<br \/>\nBecause then we hold the key<br \/>\nTo ensure the yellow hammers<br \/>\nAnd the wild birds everywhere<br \/>\nAre treated as fine citizens<br \/>\nFor in Britain we all share<\/p>\n<p>We really are a United Kingdom<br \/>\nAnd can and will be strong<br \/>\nLooking backwards from time to time<br \/>\nReally isnt wrong<\/p>\n<p>Our ancestors were much more prudent than perhaps we think<br \/>\nWe are an devited island people trading with the world at large<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A yellow hammer just a little bird From long ago Nature created its refrain Its song we all loved so Flitting across wide habitats Into landscapes where Every little bunting Just cast away despair Poets from a former time Noted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-little-yellow-hammer-message\/\">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":[344,173,24,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-environmental-poems","category-wild-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39137","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=39137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39142,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39137\/revisions\/39142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}