{"id":68717,"date":"2025-06-30T21:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=68717"},"modified":"2025-06-30T21:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:52:47","slug":"black-mamba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/06\/black-mamba\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Mamba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Sub Saharan Africa<\/p>\n<p>wherein lives one brave soul<\/p>\n<p>A vastly poisonous<\/p>\n<p>snake \u00a0so shy at least it knows it\u2019s role<br \/>\nits venom is colossal<\/p>\n<p>a poison so unique<\/p>\n<p>One \u00a0bite and you have had your chips<\/p>\n<p>this serpent isn\u2019t a freak<\/p>\n<p>its more inclined to slink away<\/p>\n<p>but if it\u2019s being \u00a0hurt<\/p>\n<p>its toxic bite will finish you<\/p>\n<p>that much is dead cert<\/p>\n<p>you must get to hospital<\/p>\n<p>within half an hour<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>or you will die a miserable death<\/p>\n<p>from the true black mambas power<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[685,194,297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-likely-story","category-africa","category-snakes-and-reptiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68717","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=68717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68722,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68717\/revisions\/68722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}