{"id":499,"date":"2011-12-15T09:09:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T09:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2011-12-15T09:15:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T09:15:56","slug":"my-mate-the-badger-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/my-mate-the-badger-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mate the Badger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">Badgers have been getting lots of bad press<br \/>\n<!--more-->TB and those cows again, oh dear!<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve been around for centuries, these creatures<br \/>\nMembers of the fauna it is clear<br \/>\nLong before man and his cows were on the scene<br \/>\nWhat a digger, strong forepaws and claws<br \/>\nThey can scrape out tunnels at quite a pace<br \/>\ngreat ancestral mansions is their cause<br \/>\nCows are fed on whats controlled by humans<br \/>\nLittle chance to eat wild plants and play<br \/>\nTheir immune systems are far too fragile<br \/>\nMany of them really shot away<br \/>\nBadgers on the otherhand are tough nuts I would say<br \/>\nWasps and Bees all tasty if they&#8217;re there<br \/>\nRabbits will be turned inside out just leaving the fur<br \/>\nFrogs and Snakes too have no chance<br \/>\nand were<br \/>\nwe to be as small as Mr Brock we &#8216;d have a fight<br \/>\nInstead we gas them blaming them for TB<br \/>\nwhich ain&#8217;t right<br \/>\nWe pass the buck to sentients who cannot argue back<br \/>\nScapegoats thats what they&#8217;ve become under<br \/>\nreal attack<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs Spellman announced in the house yesterday that she is going to have 2 pilot schemes and wild Badgers are going to be murdered by shooting to death.She has weighed all the evidence and the axe falls on the innocent whilst the farmers and the supermarkets learn nothing.Science is often an ass and we all know when politicians are unsure they sacrifice the innocent.. <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/my-mate-the-badger-2\/\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}