{"id":65560,"date":"2024-11-27T05:58:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T05:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=65560"},"modified":"2024-11-27T06:01:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T06:01:53","slug":"the-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"The sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever there\u2019s greenery<br \/>\nOn the aprons we note<br \/>\nThere\u2019s sheep bold and hardy<br \/>\nWoolly of coat<br \/>\nTheir legs clearly able<br \/>\nTo gradients go<br \/>\nSteeped in tradition<br \/>\nAnd feeling a glow<br \/>\nA contentment to wander<br \/>\nThe bogs and the dry<br \/>\nTo head up the mountains<br \/>\nReaching their sky<br \/>\nOpportunity beckons<br \/>\nWild grass real course<br \/>\nProviding them strength<br \/>\nBy a true tour de force <\/p>\n<p>Nothing appears hard<br \/>\nThey just go everywhere<br \/>\nFenced, open road through Snowdonia<br \/>\nPrayer<br \/>\nAnd thought for the danger<br \/>\nOf cars on the road<br \/>\nThey just wander digesting<br \/>\nCreating  a code, of wariness really<br \/>\nWherever they be<br \/>\nSeemingly docile but on point actually<\/p>\n<p>You see them up high<br \/>\nAnd down in the low<br \/>\nOut on the road<br \/>\nWhere it\u2019s dangerous to go<br \/>\nLoners, together all weathers<br \/>\nThey seem<br \/>\nTo be part of the fabric<br \/>\nA steady white stream<br \/>\nPicked out ever higher<br \/>\nTheir legs seemingly<br \/>\nCarry them onward<br \/>\nAnd done zestfully<\/p>\n<p>Angry cold winds<br \/>\nDo not deter<br \/>\nThe lashing rain<br \/>\nWhen it does occur<br \/>\nIt doesn\u2019t phase them<br \/>\nThey plough on anyway<br \/>\nHardy and strong<br \/>\nOn any given day<\/p>\n<p>Truly organic and able to be<br \/>\nBreathing the air<br \/>\nWonderfully free<br \/>\nIn Wales in the mountains<br \/>\nThey are just always there<br \/>\nPlotting their course<br \/>\nAnd always they dare<\/p>\n<p>Wonderfully adaptive<br \/>\nGenuinely so<br \/>\nWith a confident sir<br \/>\nNo where they won\u2019t go<br \/>\nSkirting the roads<br \/>\nAt the edges they ply<br \/>\nThe energy needed<br \/>\nTo reach for the sky<br \/>\nTo get lost in the midst<br \/>\nRelatable time<br \/>\nAnd be found one assumes<br \/>\nWherever they climb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever there\u2019s greenery On the aprons we note There\u2019s sheep bold and hardy Woolly of coat Their legs clearly able To gradients go Steeped in tradition And feeling a glow A contentment to wander The bogs and the dry To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-sheep\/\">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":[4,216,147,659,651,512,786,145,594,684,537,485,551,714,689,386,363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-animal-sacrifice","category-animals-used-for-food","category-countryside-wisdom","category-coutryside-meanderings","category-farming","category-grass","category-lambs-and-sheep","category-mountains","category-organic-harvesting","category-sunshine-and-wintry-splendour","category-wales","category-walking","category-weather-irregulaties","category-weather-patterns","category-wild-plants-some-call-weeds-bot-not-i","category-wildness-is-our-friend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65560","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=65560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65563,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65560\/revisions\/65563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}