{"id":66891,"date":"2025-02-27T03:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=66891"},"modified":"2025-02-27T03:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:26:34","slug":"anaconda-hiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/02\/anaconda-hiding\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaconda hiding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By a steamy river edge<\/p>\n<p>in Ecuador<\/p>\n<p>a while away<\/p>\n<p>a bamboo pipe was bobbing<\/p>\n<p>i have to say<\/p>\n<p>of course the bloody obvious<\/p>\n<p>i might just take that back<\/p>\n<p>it just looked remarkable<\/p>\n<p>hollowed out<\/p>\n<p>no crack<\/p>\n<p>smooth as a babies bottom<\/p>\n<p>musically perhaps<\/p>\n<p>a tune or two i could muster<\/p>\n<p>With melancholic wraps<\/p>\n<p>Each colourful crescendo<\/p>\n<p>a melody of sorts<\/p>\n<p>Borrowed from the jungle<\/p>\n<p>of wild and natural thoughts<\/p>\n<p>sadly for me i slipped into the water<\/p>\n<p>it wasn&#8217;t very deep so fortunately was<\/p>\n<p>able to get hold of and place it on \u00a0the bank<\/p>\n<p>And saw a snake crawl out<\/p>\n<p>exceptionally<\/p>\n<p>piranha in the water teeth a chomping<\/p>\n<p>in Ecuador the rivers are a pain<\/p>\n<p>there before something being<\/p>\n<p>pulverised by a melee of them<\/p>\n<p>seriously insane<\/p>\n<p>blood and guts and splintered bones<\/p>\n<p>were causing<\/p>\n<p>a minced up vile indulgence i could see<\/p>\n<p>thought to myself if luck was not protecting<\/p>\n<p>then bloody hell it just might happen to be me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By a steamy river edge in Ecuador a while away a bamboo pipe was bobbing i have to say of course the bloody obvious i might just take that back it just looked remarkable hollowed out no crack smooth as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/02\/anaconda-hiding\/\">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":[749,4,665,740,477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-animal-rights","category-ecuador-2","category-ecuador-and-its-almighty-splendour","category-reptiles-and-herpetology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66891","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=66891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66896,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66891\/revisions\/66896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}