{"id":42825,"date":"2019-09-30T10:38:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T10:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=42825"},"modified":"2019-09-30T10:48:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T10:48:14","slug":"merry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/09\/merry\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Merry&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beside the road<br \/>\nWe found her<br \/>\nAbandoned all alone<br \/>\nBarely breathing<br \/>\nLacking mothers milk<br \/>\nAnd the odd groan<br \/>\nEmaciated body<br \/>\nOn very feeble legs<br \/>\nA beautiful little baby<br \/>\nThe question though it begs<br \/>\nHow can human beings<br \/>\nBe so nasty and so bad<br \/>\nLeaving a baby calf upon the roadside<br \/>\nIts so sad<br \/>\nIts wicked and its sinful<br \/>\nA baby lying there<br \/>\nWhilst human beings drink<br \/>\nThe milk<br \/>\nAs if they do not care.<\/p>\n<p>Poor &#8220;Merry&#8221; she was exhausted<br \/>\nAn unfallen state was she<br \/>\nAnd so the angels came for her<br \/>\nAnd examined her to see<br \/>\nWhat they could do if anything<br \/>\nTo give her a fighting chance<br \/>\nIv fluids and formula<br \/>\nHelp they thought perchance<br \/>\nAnd sure enough 4 days of this<br \/>\nAnd lots of love and care<br \/>\nShe got up and was walking<br \/>\nAnd very much aware<br \/>\nRapidly she grew strong<br \/>\nCalves are patricial souls<br \/>\nBorn to walk born to be<br \/>\nFull of true controls<br \/>\nProvided they get mothers molk<br \/>\nAnd love and loads of care<br \/>\nThey well just work miracles<br \/>\nAnd their love they share<\/p>\n<p>The angels watched her progress<br \/>\nTail wagging puppy like<br \/>\nShe was running around the yard<br \/>\nQuite the little tyke<br \/>\nGetting loads of cuddles<br \/>\nKisses she got a load<br \/>\nAnd &#8220;Merry&#8221; is now quite a star<br \/>\nWhich is why I write this ode<\/p>\n<p>ANimalaid unlimited<br \/>\nThe street angels<br \/>\nOf Rajastan India<\/p>\n<p>Please give them a donation<br \/>\nThey are doing sterling work every day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beside the road We found her Abandoned all alone Barely breathing Lacking mothers milk And the odd groan Emaciated body On very feeble legs A beautiful little baby The question though it begs How can human beings Be so nasty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/09\/merry\/\">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":[344,173,399,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animalaid-unlimited","category-calves-and-cows-and-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42825","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=42825"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42827,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42825\/revisions\/42827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}