{"id":67546,"date":"2025-04-05T15:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=67546"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:16:27","slug":"being-expected-to-win-in-every-race-is-cruelty-personified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/04\/being-expected-to-win-in-every-race-is-cruelty-personified\/","title":{"rendered":"Being expected to win in every race is cruelty personified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s unbearably unfair<br \/>\nTo expect horses to run<br \/>\nFaster than they can<br \/>\nWhen all is said and done<br \/>\nHaving to carry a whipping boy<br \/>\nThat\u2019s expecting that we<br \/>\nThough tired and trained to painfulness<br \/>\nMust run and try to be<br \/>\nFirst when all the ligaments<br \/>\nAre tight and suffering we<br \/>\nWould rather drop as many of us<br \/>\nDo in agony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s unbearably unfair To expect horses to run Faster than they can When all is said and done Having to carry a whipping boy That\u2019s expecting that we Though tired and trained to painfulness Must run and try to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/04\/being-expected-to-win-in-every-race-is-cruelty-personified\/\">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":[4,110,431,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-horses","category-racing","category-sporting-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67546","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=67546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67547,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67546\/revisions\/67547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}