{"id":40833,"date":"2019-04-06T08:34:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T08:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=40833"},"modified":"2019-04-06T08:52:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T08:52:44","slug":"a-child-growing-up-in-his-fathers-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/a-child-growing-up-in-his-fathers-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A child growing up in his fathers world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a little me<br \/>\nHe is going to be<br \/>\nMy son<br \/>\nMy protege<br \/>\nHe could be a genius too<br \/>\nIdentical in every way<\/p>\n<p>He came out of the same pod<br \/>\nI will dress him up in green<br \/>\nAnd give him a shot gun<br \/>\nIt wont make him mean<br \/>\nA baikal single barrel<br \/>\nAnd, what he can do<br \/>\nIs practice on his teddy bear<br \/>\nAnd get his eye in too<\/p>\n<p>Got to start off<br \/>\nYoung these day<br \/>\nWe live here on a farm<br \/>\nSo he can take pot shots<br \/>\nAt birds<br \/>\nHow can he come to harm<br \/>\nI am raising him to be a man<br \/>\nA farmer so to say<br \/>\nNot some lily livered<br \/>\nOffice waller<br \/>\nBut a farmer all the way<\/p>\n<p>And am giving him a start in life<br \/>\nMaking him a man<br \/>\nSomeone I can look up to<br \/>\nHe can be a fan<br \/>\nI can get him shooting<br \/>\nRats and crows and mice<br \/>\nHe can his earn his keep a bit<br \/>\nWouldnt that be nice<\/p>\n<p>Four years old<br \/>\nAnd shooting<br \/>\nToday a parakeet<br \/>\nA flock came in to<br \/>\nEat my seeds<br \/>\nWe aimed<br \/>\nYea to unseat<br \/>\nThe buggers<br \/>\nOne dropped brilliantly<br \/>\nRight out of the sky<br \/>\nFirst blood to my precious boy<br \/>\nWho watched his first shot die<\/p>\n<p>He picked him up and carried<br \/>\nHim home to show his mama<br \/>\nA little  me<br \/>\nHe is going to be<br \/>\nAnd one hopes a shooting star.<\/p>\n<p>From an e mail on facebook<br \/>\nA father bragging about teaching his son to shoot<br \/>\nAnd giving him a shotgun<br \/>\nHell fire god almighty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a little me He is going to be My son My protege He could be a genius too Identical in every way He came out of the same pod I will dress him up in green And give him a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/a-child-growing-up-in-his-fathers-world\/\">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":[344,173,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-wild-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40833","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=40833"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40836,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40833\/revisions\/40836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}