{"id":42637,"date":"2019-09-18T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=42637"},"modified":"2019-09-18T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T08:58:00","slug":"the-poor-old-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-poor-old-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"The poor old bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bull was sick<br \/>\nHe wouldn\u2019t eat<br \/>\nHeavy and sluggish<br \/>\nOn the street<br \/>\nClearly in trouble<br \/>\nAnd we were called<br \/>\nanimal aid unlimited<br \/>\nHauled<br \/>\nOut that morning<br \/>\nAnd when we saw<br \/>\nThe massive bull<br \/>\nSat on the floor<\/p>\n<p>Living on garbage<br \/>\nFrom the street<br \/>\nFestering in all the heat<br \/>\nBack To the hospital we could see<br \/>\nWe needed to operate<br \/>\n rapidly<br \/>\n MAde the incision<br \/>\nAnd without a doubt<br \/>\nStarted to pull<br \/>\nThe plastic out<br \/>\n45 pounds of plastic we<br \/>\nPulled out of the bull for all to see<\/p>\n<p>Plastic bags food packaging<br \/>\nWire and string<br \/>\nNails and really everything<br \/>\nPlastic sheeting<br \/>\nReels of twine<br \/>\nNo wonder his life was on the line<br \/>\nBandaged and left<br \/>\nTo eat some hay<br \/>\nShare with the goat kids<br \/>\nEveryday<\/p>\n<p>Outside in the sun<br \/>\nHis progress slow<br \/>\nBut recovery came<br \/>\nAs well we know<br \/>\nThe surgeons hand<br \/>\nHad made repair<br \/>\nHis reawakening<br \/>\nAnd the care<br \/>\nCertainly spruced the old  bull<br \/>\nTo<br \/>\nSurvive the ordeal<br \/>\nAnd remain true<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bull was sick He wouldn\u2019t eat Heavy and sluggish On the street Clearly in trouble And we were called animal aid unlimited Hauled Out that morning And when we saw The massive bull Sat on the floor Living on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-poor-old-bull\/\">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":[344,173,399,147,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animalaid-unlimited","category-animals-used-for-food","category-calves-and-cows-and-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42637","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=42637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42638,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42637\/revisions\/42638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}