{"id":486,"date":"2011-12-12T19:59:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T19:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2011-12-12T19:59:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T19:59:05","slug":"a-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/a-christmas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"center\">Christmas is upon us<br \/>\n<!--more-->By 5 and the sky is dark<br \/>\nThe wind is picking up<br \/>\nJack Frost now makes his mark<br \/>\nAcross the rooves and windows<br \/>\nand picks out spiders who<br \/>\nallow him to spray all their webs<br \/>\nwith his frosty dusting too.<\/p>\n<p>The Commercial World kicked in<br \/>\naround 3 months ago<br \/>\nThe Turkeys in great sheds<br \/>\nsang their last song<br \/>\nMore of them were packed into<br \/>\nwhat already was a tight space<br \/>\nFor Christmas has been brutal<br \/>\nall along<br \/>\nFor them the men soon come<br \/>\nand yes they throttle them<br \/>\nand some get bashed and hammered<br \/>\nIts frustration<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re tired they want to get home<br \/>\nto their families<br \/>\nand all partake in the wonderful<br \/>\ncremation.<br \/>\nThe factory farms are mean<br \/>\non quality food and even hay<br \/>\nTheir poor old legs had given out<br \/>\non that concrete every day<br \/>\nno spring in concrete and its cold<br \/>\nand having aged so fast<br \/>\na draught of jack Frost up one&#8217;s arse<br \/>\nYou know your dye is cast.<\/p>\n<p>So now its off to the superstore<br \/>\nThe corporate market place<br \/>\nFrozen like great ice balloons<br \/>\nDignity and grace<br \/>\nstripped and now left wanting<br \/>\nthe pink and pappy look<br \/>\nsacrificed for profit<br \/>\nIts all there in the book!<br \/>\nWaiting for the customers<br \/>\nWith tinsel in their hair<br \/>\nI&#8217;m loaded on a trolley<br \/>\nBound for God know&#8217;s where<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alternative Christmas Story <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/a-christmas-story\/\">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":[18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-stories","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}