{"id":63308,"date":"2024-04-29T07:46:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T07:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=63308"},"modified":"2024-04-29T07:46:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T07:46:43","slug":"for-the-ignorant-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/04\/for-the-ignorant-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"For the ignorant boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the ignorant boy<br \/>\nIt was easy to kill<br \/>\nThe creature that sat<br \/>\nOn the top of the hill<\/p>\n<p>There in the grass<br \/>\nWith his shoe he did smash<br \/>\nThe creature lay squashed<br \/>\nLife, then death in a flash<\/p>\n<p>God made the earth<br \/>\nAnd the creatures and he<br \/>\nWill understand why<br \/>\nThe boy had to be<\/p>\n<p>Wilful, destructive<br \/>\nTo kill as he had<br \/>\nThe ignorant boy<br \/>\nThe more ignorant dad<\/p>\n<p>At Pitstone<br \/>\nThe ignorant boy he is there<br \/>\nKilling the creatures<br \/>\nAnd causing despair<\/p>\n<p>Threatening us<br \/>\nAs our finance is small<br \/>\nAnd our backs are of course<br \/>\nRight up to the wall<\/p>\n<p>We though have prayer<br \/>\nWe have poems and we<br \/>\nHope that John Gummer<br \/>\nCan now oversee<\/p>\n<p>Refer to the ode<br \/>\nOf the ignorant boy<br \/>\nAnd just give us back<br \/>\nWhat was ours to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Sent to DOE Bristol\/ Rooms 12\/16 Tollgate House<\/p>\n<p>22nd June  1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the ignorant boy It was easy to kill The creature that sat On the top of the hill There in the grass With his shoe he did smash The creature lay squashed Life, then death in a flash God &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/04\/for-the-ignorant-boy\/\">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":[492,344,173,4,216,137,358,170,195,651,603,377,23,24,310,316,189,215,446,30,34,272,219,507,658,145,604,441,54,398,58,143,328,567,226,541,283,291,297,106,284,193,539,258,274,362,289,134,246,386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-not-my-king-story","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animal-rights","category-animal-sacrifice","category-birds-and-the-environment","category-breathing-and-pollution","category-children-and-their-plight-in-a-adult-world","category-corporate-giants","category-coutryside-meanderings","category-criminality","category-duty-of-care-was-never-there","category-emotional-poems","category-environmental-poems","category-extinction","category-forests-and-wild-places","category-foxes","category-freedom-and-whats-happening-to-it","category-fungi","category-general-poems","category-green-energy","category-hares-and-red-grouse","category-hedgehogs","category-humanity-is-a-shithouse","category-industrial-management","category-lambs-and-sheep","category-lead-contaminates","category-mining-and-destruction-of-habitat","category-people-i-have-observed","category-pitstone","category-pitstone-archive","category-rabbits","category-rats-wild-and-fearless","category-ravens-and-crows","category-red-and-fallow-deers-trophies","category-red-kite","category-red-squirrels","category-rivers","category-snakes-and-reptiles","category-sows-and-boars","category-spiders","category-spring-flowers","category-starlings","category-trees-that-i-am-close-to","category-trees-our-silent-friends","category-wasps","category-weasels","category-wild-birds","category-wild-deers","category-wild-plants-some-call-weeds-bot-not-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63308","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=63308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63309,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63308\/revisions\/63309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}