{"id":68334,"date":"2025-05-29T12:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=68334"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:44:33","slug":"fox-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/05\/fox-gloves\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox gloves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dryad I knew<br \/>\nWho enjoyed morning dew<br \/>\nShe washed in its coolness<br \/>\nAnd had taken the view<br \/>\nThat she could see  further<br \/>\nFrom her wooded realm<br \/>\nWhere a woodpecker friend<br \/>\nOften did overwhelm<\/p>\n<p>Her and some others<br \/>\nWho supposedly<br \/>\nGave fox gloves to foxes<br \/>\nYou see, They magically<br \/>\nBecame a feature<br \/>\nIn hen houses they<br \/>\nThat\u2019s the foxes<br \/>\nCould tentatively<br \/>\nEnter<br \/>\nThey say<br \/>\nBut more and more studies<br \/>\nConvince me that foxes<br \/>\nAre never invisible<br \/>\nThe flowers though might be<br \/>\nGlove like in order<br \/>\nTo attract  the Bee<br \/>\nWho falls into their lair<br \/>\nAnd pollen then coats<br \/>\nHis tiny hairs<br \/>\nPollination one notes<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s what life\u2019s about<br \/>\nIn the great wooded sphere<br \/>\ndryads come hither<br \/>\nAnd wither with fear<br \/>\nDrinking birch wine for supper<br \/>\nAnd a strong puff ball tea<br \/>\nIn the land of the fey<br \/>\nWhere we all love  to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dryad I knew Who enjoyed morning dew She washed in its coolness And had taken the view That she could see further From her wooded realm Where a woodpecker friend Often did overwhelm Her and some others Who supposedly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/05\/fox-gloves\/\">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":[492,4,135,480,316,898,189,545],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-not-my-king-story","category-animal-rights","category-bees","category-faery","category-forests-and-wild-places","category-fox-gloves","category-foxes","category-honey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68334","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=68334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68338,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68334\/revisions\/68338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}