{"id":398,"date":"2011-12-03T18:33:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T18:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2011-12-03T23:31:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T23:31:46","slug":"foxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/foxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">How secretive he has to be<br \/>\n<!--more-->With hunters on his trail<br \/>\nnot scientific thoughtful types<br \/>\nBut murderers who fail<br \/>\nTo understand the countryside<br \/>\nAnd the ways of old folk lore<br \/>\nThey are unabashed an arrogant<br \/>\nand like him, a carnivoreWho ride their merry steeds leaping<br \/>\nfence and ditches<br \/>\nTally Ho clothed in red<br \/>\nwith rather tight grey britches<br \/>\nTo be hunted by a pack of hungry hounds<br \/>\nand the Hunter breed<br \/>\nIs to know what it is like to be so wild<br \/>\nand still succeedUp against a wild elusive shadow<br \/>\nThe Hunters with their soft hands and soft heads<br \/>\nIt takes a lot of luck to catch old Foxy<br \/>\nUnless of course your dreaming in your beds<br \/>\nHis earth is under exposed oak, he comes and goes<br \/>\nA detour here and detour there and a sensitive old nose<br \/>\nThe Master lives in that old house up there on the hill<br \/>\nAnd drinks a fat old cognac when he has time to kill<br \/>\nThe great sounds of the horses hooves<br \/>\nClabbering down the lane<br \/>\nPut the fear of God and satan up the Fox, its plain<br \/>\nWhose ravenous, who needs to taste the gamey<br \/>\nlong toed vole, sick of crunching beetles and slugs around the hole<\/p>\n<p>Winters coming rapidly, Jack Frost is on the prowl<br \/>\nIts mid way through December and at night the winds do howl<br \/>\nFoxey hears the horses, Foxy smells the hounds<br \/>\nThe earth is 1\/2 a mile away up passed Morris Grounds.<br \/>\nSkirting through the forest down by his Oak lane, should he break his cover<br \/>\nand if he does will he gain<br \/>\nGet to sink into his earth and<br \/>\nfeel the vixens breath<br \/>\nOr will he feel the rabid hounds<br \/>\nAnd await, instant death<br \/>\nHe heard his young heart beating<br \/>\nLoudly like a drum<br \/>\nAnd so did break his cover<br \/>\nHis muzzle it felt numb<br \/>\nAn un earthing eggs this morning<br \/>\nThe Gulls were good and sweet<br \/>\nSo He now must summon all his power<br \/>\nFor of course he has to beat<br \/>\nOut across the lane he goes<br \/>\nin to the forest dark<br \/>\nUnder the stile, across the field<br \/>\nAround, by the park<br \/>\nUp the ridge to Sandford<br \/>\nThe Hounds are on his scent<br \/>\nYapping like a band of banshee&#8217;s<br \/>\nAnd to the oaks he went<br \/>\nAnd down into the earth<br \/>\naway from Hunting hordes<br \/>\nDown deep in the darkness<br \/>\nNo reason to cross swords<br \/>\nDown beside his vixen<br \/>\nTo cuddle up and sleep<br \/>\nHe could hear the hounds<br \/>\na yapping<br \/>\nBut was very very deep<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine what it must be like to be  a wild fox, every time you go out you might not come back in one piece, In the depths of your earth you have your vixen and 2 cubs, you must continue to  find fresh food, and out smart the hounds and the hunters.<br \/>\nFox Hunting is a cruel and nasty pastime <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/foxy\/\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}