{"id":65998,"date":"2024-12-25T21:46:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T21:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=65998"},"modified":"2024-12-25T21:46:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T21:46:28","slug":"turkeys-and-lambs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/12\/turkeys-and-lambs\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkeys and lambs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those beautiful turkeys<br \/>\nColourful souls<br \/>\nStrutting though snowflakes<br \/>\nTaking on roles<br \/>\nThey live for the yule tide<br \/>\nWhen humanity<br \/>\nPlucks them and cooks them<br \/>\nFor dinner and tea<\/p>\n<p>Stuffed with some pork meat<br \/>\nAnd sage herbs I hear<br \/>\nServed with the green sprouts<br \/>\nFrom Brussels, it\u2019s clear<br \/>\nPotatoes and Parsnips<br \/>\nThose golden roots<br \/>\nLots of rich gravy<br \/>\nAnd salady shoots <\/p>\n<p>Thousands of turkeys<br \/>\nMeet their bitter end<br \/>\nAnd now we have little lambs<br \/>\nSomebody\u2019s friend<br \/>\nIn milk in February<br \/>\nLeaping wee souls<br \/>\nLoving their mother<br \/>\nIn the kindest of roles<\/p>\n<p>Infant mortality<br \/>\nThat is their role<br \/>\nBouncing through hedgerows<br \/>\nThey answer the call<br \/>\nOf nature of mummy<br \/>\nWhose tummy they know<br \/>\nImbolc a sabbat<br \/>\nWhen the  lambs walk too and fro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those beautiful turkeys Colourful souls Strutting though snowflakes Taking on roles They live for the yule tide When humanity Plucks them and cooks them For dinner and tea Stuffed with some pork meat And sage herbs I hear Served with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/12\/turkeys-and-lambs\/\">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":[749,145,200,129,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-lambs-and-sheep","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft","category-turkeys","category-turkeys-and-chickens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65998","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=65998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65999,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65998\/revisions\/65999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}