{"id":43379,"date":"2019-12-06T17:19:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=43379"},"modified":"2019-12-06T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:23:00","slug":"master-and-his-horseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/12\/master-and-his-horseman\/","title":{"rendered":"Master and his horseman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huge Meynell started it<br \/>\nFox hunting the fool<br \/>\nIt\u2019s pertains to the upper crust<br \/>\nThe countryside to rule<br \/>\nA pack of hungry hounds in tow<br \/>\nA wizen fox away<br \/>\nThe unspeakable is happening<br \/>\nIn a wood somewhere today<br \/>\nDespite the  ban of  years ago<br \/>\nThese toffs enjoy the taste.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s fanciful and meaningful<br \/>\nWhen there\u2019s no time to waste<br \/>\nScarlet pink and those in black<br \/>\nTop hats if you will<br \/>\nWe must dress up for the wily fox<br \/>\nWhose blood we need to spill<\/p>\n<p>This is the schooner supping lads<br \/>\nWho meet in the<br \/>\nLocal where<br \/>\nThey get tanked up the Fino<br \/>\nAnd with the fox they share<br \/>\nA lot of good old banter<br \/>\nAs for the SABS well they<br \/>\nWill get a bunch of fives<br \/>\nIf they get in our way<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the height of ambiguity<br \/>\nA conundrum can I say<br \/>\nWhy a group of men dressed up like twats<br \/>\nRide about all day<br \/>\nHorns a blowing hounds a barking<br \/>\nHoping to kill a soul<br \/>\nAs wild as the wind that bloweth<br \/>\nWho takes a leading role<\/p>\n<p>We have to ban this nonsense<br \/>\nIt\u2019s dupery and wrong<br \/>\nIt\u2019s bogus and it\u2019s phoney<br \/>\nAnd just doesn\u2019t belong<br \/>\nIn England no not any more<br \/>\nThese hunters think they know<br \/>\nWhatever the law says they don\u2019t care<br \/>\nFor its all part of the show<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tradition it\u2019s the culture<br \/>\nCowards in scarlet pink<br \/>\nLeaping over other people\u2019s fences that\u2019s  the link<br \/>\nWith trespassing<br \/>\naround the towns and countrysides<br \/>\nWhere they<br \/>\nDivert through non hunters gardens<br \/>\nDisrupting all the way<\/p>\n<p>Hunters should be knocked off their bold stallions<br \/>\nAnd placed within the stocks at the pool in Aldbury<br \/>\nGet some duff tomatoes and some real hard plums<br \/>\nAnd belt them, till of course they scream inordibly<\/p>\n<p>we have to stop this carnage in our countryside<br \/>\nTradition paints its picture and we see<br \/>\nAnd  it feels wrong the bloody murder and the brush the mask and pads<br \/>\nAll Trophies that are sick if you ask me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge Meynell started it Fox hunting the fool It\u2019s pertains to the upper crust The countryside to rule A pack of hungry hounds in tow A wizen fox away The unspeakable is happening In a wood somewhere today Despite the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/12\/master-and-his-horseman\/\">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":[344,173,114,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-fox-hunting","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43379","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=43379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43382,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43379\/revisions\/43382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}