{"id":67325,"date":"2025-03-28T17:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=67325"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:36:56","slug":"hooting-is-better-than-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/03\/hooting-is-better-than-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooting is better than shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of a sudden<\/p>\n<p>theres an owl around here<\/p>\n<p>a bird that likes \u00a0darkness<\/p>\n<p>a legendary fear<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it seldom surfaces<\/p>\n<p>in daylight hours<\/p>\n<p>An outlaw of sorts<\/p>\n<p>with magical powers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lives eating field mice<\/p>\n<p>so farmers agree<\/p>\n<p>they love resident owls<\/p>\n<p>thats a certainty<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the sharp claws and hooked beak<\/p>\n<p>and big staring eyes<\/p>\n<p>and that well ghostly call<\/p>\n<p>can be quite a surprise<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>at night they will fly<\/p>\n<p>often through wooded lanes<\/p>\n<p>goggle like eyes<\/p>\n<p>and pretty good brains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the vicinity of Woodland Close Tring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of a sudden theres an owl around here a bird that likes \u00a0darkness a legendary fear &nbsp; it seldom surfaces in daylight hours An outlaw of sorts with magical powers &nbsp; Lives eating field mice so farmers agree they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/03\/hooting-is-better-than-shooting\/\">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":[651,812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coutryside-meanderings","category-owls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67325","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=67325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67328,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67325\/revisions\/67328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}