{"id":66006,"date":"2024-12-26T11:51:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T11:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=66006"},"modified":"2024-12-26T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T11:51:59","slug":"boxing-day-hunts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/12\/boxing-day-hunts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Day Hunts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are out there a chasing<br \/>\nGuts drooping with Turkey<br \/>\nLet\u2019s feel sorry for the horses<br \/>\nBearing up to their weight<br \/>\nHow many I wonder<br \/>\nGulped Port at their table<br \/>\nAnd woke up this morning<br \/>\nHoping the fate<br \/>\nof the red fox<br \/>\nWhose hoping to find a meal<br \/>\nObviously<br \/>\nWandering wild in the forest<br \/>\nNow where<br \/>\nThese huntsman parading<br \/>\nBy really not aiding<br \/>\nThe wild life around these parts<br \/>\nExcept with despair<\/p>\n<p>The sabs will be out there<br \/>\nHunting the hunters<br \/>\nBiding their time<br \/>\nAs the horseman ride by<br \/>\nThe squirrel men cometh<br \/>\nExpletives and worse<br \/>\nBoxing Day meets<br \/>\nIn the pub afterwards<br \/>\nKnocking back fino<br \/>\nIt feels like a curse<br \/>\nAs for the constabulary<br \/>\nIf their on duty<br \/>\nChasing the hunters<br \/>\nWill not be their thing<br \/>\nDrink before the night before<br \/>\nNobody\u2019s checking<br \/>\nLand rovers everywhere<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s it all for<\/p>\n<p>Far too much dead flesh<br \/>\nMince pies and custard<br \/>\nChristmas cake cognac<br \/>\nAnd chocolate as well<br \/>\nThe gift from Nature<br \/>\nA fox drawn and quartered<br \/>\nBy a pack, of hounds<br \/>\nSeemingly all from hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are out there a chasing Guts drooping with Turkey Let\u2019s feel sorry for the horses Bearing up to their weight How many I wonder Gulped Port at their table And woke up this morning Hoping the fate of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/12\/boxing-day-hunts-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":[749,810,316,114,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-boozers","category-forests-and-wild-places","category-fox-hunting","category-foxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66006","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=66006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66007,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66006\/revisions\/66007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}