{"id":4766,"date":"2013-01-03T09:13:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T09:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2013-01-03T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T09:36:12","slug":"all-the-fun-of-the-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/all-the-fun-of-the-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"All the fun of the fair (Inspired  by a picture on face book today)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fair ground horses<br \/>\nalways perfect<br \/>\nsome though<br \/>\nlook the worst for wear<br \/>\nround and round they go like crazy<br \/>\nat the merry go round that&#8217;s where<\/p>\n<p>roll up roll up<br \/>\nride the horses<br \/>\nround and round<br \/>\neach day they go<br \/>\nnever giddy always happy<br \/>\ncome and be part of the show<\/p>\n<p>a mare was being ridden<br \/>\nclose to where a fair<br \/>\nwas set up, she<br \/>\nobserved the ornamental horses<br \/>\nround and round obediently<\/p>\n<p>music playing children saying<br \/>\nhow much they enjoyed the ride<br \/>\nthe horses though seemed staid<br \/>\nand silent<br \/>\ndull if anything not wide eyed<\/p>\n<p>it seemed a pretty boring life<br \/>\ngoing around and around all day<br \/>\npretty music but pretty music<br \/>\ncan be boring in a way<\/p>\n<p>it would be nice<br \/>\nto lose the saddle<br \/>\nand just run up into the sky<br \/>\nthrough the forest<br \/>\nback to Nature<br \/>\nwhere the grass and flowers<br \/>\ngrow high<\/p>\n<p>kick my heels<br \/>\nand gallop faster<br \/>\nover the sand<br \/>\nand through water, I<br \/>\nwould rather be<br \/>\nwild just like my father<br \/>\nthan on some merry go round<br \/>\njust die<\/p>\n<p>turning from the fair<br \/>\nground slowly<br \/>\nI realised that life<br \/>\nfor me<br \/>\nwasn&#8217;t really all that<br \/>\nstressful<br \/>\nit could be stressful<br \/>\nif I was free<\/p>\n<p>remembering those<br \/>\nfairground horses<br \/>\nnose to tail<br \/>\nand round and round<br \/>\nand all the other horses<br \/>\nout there<br \/>\nworking horses<br \/>\nthat seemed bound<\/p>\n<p>to pull carts<br \/>\nrace and train at dressage<br \/>\nin the raw<br \/>\nand the rodeo<br \/>\nriding with the picadors<br \/>\nin the arena<br \/>\nwould I go<\/p>\n<p>No I have to say<br \/>\nthe freedom<br \/>\nI have, I should try to see<br \/>\nthe only true and honest<br \/>\nfreedom<br \/>\nis when a horse dreams<br \/>\nconstantly<\/p>\n<p>and so that&#8217;s my<br \/>\nrecommendation<br \/>\nto horses everywhere<br \/>\ngo about your business<br \/>\nwith your human partners<br \/>\nand just share<\/p>\n<p>what good you can<br \/>\nand dream that one day<br \/>\nfinding places wild and green<br \/>\nand living there<br \/>\nin rich sweet pastures<br \/>\nwith other&#8217;s who<br \/>\nknow where we&#8217;ve been<\/p>\n<p>under the saddle<br \/>\nof all those humans<br \/>\nsome were cruel<br \/>\nsome did their thing<br \/>\nbut nothing is like<br \/>\nrunning freely<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s when the<br \/>\nold heart does sing<\/p>\n<p> *dedicated to my friend Catherine Garneau a beautiful animal artist who I met on face book*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horses for courses <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/all-the-fun-of-the-fair\/\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","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=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4777,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/4777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}