{"id":46545,"date":"2020-06-20T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=46545"},"modified":"2020-06-20T20:37:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T20:37:03","slug":"swan-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/06\/swan-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan\u2019s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heartache and discontent<br \/>\nA mothers plea<br \/>\nA swan on an island<br \/>\nHer nest seemingly<br \/>\nHidden from view<br \/>\nBut apparently so<br \/>\nA crowd of yobs<br \/>\nThrew bricks at it<br \/>\nWe know<br \/>\nThe mother beside herself<br \/>\nImagine her pain<br \/>\nthe angst and the anguish<br \/>\nTo find them all slain<br \/>\nBy the bricks<br \/>\nTossed and broken<br \/>\nHer 5 unborn<br \/>\nSmashed into pieces<br \/>\ndamnation  did dawn<br \/>\nIt was her waking nightmare<br \/>\nHer grief and her gloom<br \/>\nSuch desolation<br \/>\nWith huge bouts of doom<br \/>\nDisquiet and fretting<br \/>\nIndisposed she<br \/>\nDied with a broken heart<br \/>\nVictimised she<br \/>\nA Crowd of young boys<br \/>\nAll as Ugly as sin<br \/>\nTheir insensitivity<br \/>\nFit for the bin<br \/>\nBoorish uncertainty<br \/>\nCraven hearted were they<br \/>\nHaving Murdered those cygnets<br \/>\nAt the end of the day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heartache and discontent A mothers plea A swan on an island Her nest seemingly Hidden from view But apparently so A crowd of yobs Threw bricks at it We know The mother beside herself Imagine her pain the angst and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/06\/swan-song\/\">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":[344,173,15,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-canalside-observations","category-wild-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46545","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=46545"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46550,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46545\/revisions\/46550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}