{"id":4353,"date":"2012-12-19T22:51:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T22:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2012-12-19T22:53:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T22:53:51","slug":"bird-song-a-little-tale-for-christmas-for-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/bird-song-a-little-tale-for-christmas-for-my-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird song a little tale for Christmas for my friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The roove&#8217;s were cold<br \/>\nand frosty<br \/>\nwe had no place<br \/>\nto roost<br \/>\nour feathers tired<br \/>\nand tattered<br \/>\nemotions, sadly loosed<br \/>\nwe snuggled up together<br \/>\naround the chimney stack<br \/>\nand let the nice hot vapours<br \/>\nsort of warm<br \/>\nour back<br \/>\nthe wind was truly spiteful<br \/>\nit tore into us, we<br \/>\ngot closer to the chimney<br \/>\nhopeful we would be<br \/>\nmore comfortable<br \/>\nour tenderness I felt<br \/>\nand she did coo<br \/>\nmy pretty little pigeon<br \/>\nmy love for her was true<br \/>\nbut,tragically she edged too far<br \/>\nand fell straight down the stack<br \/>\nI heard her gasp<br \/>\nI heard her cry<br \/>\nshe was not coming back!<br \/>\ndown into the burner<br \/>\nshe&#8217;d gone<br \/>\nmy heart it broke<br \/>\nhow could I live without her<br \/>\nthe tears, how they did soak<br \/>\nmy very tattered feathers<br \/>\nso I decided I<br \/>\nwould also take the leap of faith<br \/>\ninto the fire, I&#8217;d die<br \/>\nbut when I hit the ground<br \/>\nI realised there was no fire<br \/>\nand she was flapping around the room<br \/>\nand beginning, to tire<br \/>\nwe slept together on the mantle piece<br \/>\nbeside the clock<br \/>\nand in the morning early<br \/>\nthe humans had a shock<br \/>\nfinding us huddled closely<br \/>\n2 love birds, maybe so<br \/>\nbut actually 2 pigeons<br \/>\nwith no where else to go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a love story with a happy ending  a tale for Christmas for my friends all over the world <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/bird-song-a-little-tale-for-christmas-for-my-friends\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","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=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4355,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}