{"id":48497,"date":"2020-10-28T13:25:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=48497"},"modified":"2020-10-28T13:38:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:38:28","slug":"excuses-that-turned-against-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/10\/excuses-that-turned-against-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Excuses  that turned against me  (a short story)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just Going out<br \/>\nTo bag me a rabbit<br \/>\nSo don\u2019t be too long<br \/>\nDon\u2019t make it a habit<br \/>\nOut in the dark woods<br \/>\nThe charred sombre gloom<br \/>\nThrough the great mass of leaves<br \/>\nDown the long path to doom<\/p>\n<p>Over the stile<br \/>\nAnd into the field<br \/>\nWhere the puffballs grow bigger<br \/>\nAnd there concealed<br \/>\nIn the undergrowth<br \/>\nMany warrens we see<br \/>\nAnd hopefully<br \/>\nI\u2019ll bag a young one for tea<\/p>\n<p>But as luck would have it<br \/>\nI took the wrong path<br \/>\nToo much water about<br \/>\nIts one muddy bath<br \/>\nSo I went around the Oak<br \/>\nAnd tragically I<br \/>\nStepped on a trap<br \/>\nIts steel jawed<br \/>\nAnd was why<\/p>\n<p>I let  out a scream<br \/>\nLike an owl on the wing<br \/>\nMy back legs were crushed<br \/>\nAnd i couldn\u2019t bring<br \/>\nMyself to move anywhere<br \/>\nAfter that shock<br \/>\nI just felt so heavy<br \/>\nAlmost like a rock<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d be thinking<br \/>\nThat I was gallivanting around<br \/>\nSeeing my lady friends<br \/>\nWho pound for pound<br \/>\nWere rather special<br \/>\nI did  love them so<br \/>\nBut all now was over<br \/>\nThat much I  did know<\/p>\n<p>Back at home she would worry<br \/>\nAll sorts of ideas<br \/>\nAll Would be negative<br \/>\nOh yes my dears<br \/>\nAnd theres me going to<br \/>\nDie here in a steel trap<br \/>\nBoth my  legs shattered<br \/>\nAs old death will wrap<\/p>\n<p>His blackness around me<br \/>\nFor here i would lie<br \/>\nCovered in blood<br \/>\nLooking up at the sky<br \/>\nMy family would manage<br \/>\nAnd people would think<br \/>\nAll the most rotten things<br \/>\nAnd as I blink<\/p>\n<p>The wicked fur lovers<br \/>\nMust understand they<br \/>\nWant to eat dead flesh<br \/>\nAnd the wear dead skin way<br \/>\nMore now do both<br \/>\nAnd its why trappers do<br \/>\nDescend into hell<br \/>\nJust to compromise you<\/p>\n<p>So as my eyes are closing<br \/>\nMy heart\u2019s getting weak<br \/>\nIt will soon be the bugs and the maggots<br \/>\nWho reap<br \/>\nWhats Left of  my body<br \/>\nAs I pass away<br \/>\nAnd my missus now thinks bad of me<br \/>\nStill i have Nothing to  say<\/p>\n<p>Wrote it at 1.00pm 28\/10<br \/>\nAfter my decision to go for picnics not rituals <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Going out To bag me a rabbit So don\u2019t be too long Don\u2019t make it a habit Out in the dark woods The charred sombre gloom Through the great mass of leaves Down the long path to doom Over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/10\/excuses-that-turned-against-me\/\">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":[344,173,119,316,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-badgers","category-forests-and-wild-places","category-foxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48497","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=48497"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48504,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48497\/revisions\/48504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}