{"id":69518,"date":"2025-09-15T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=69518"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:03:00","slug":"leave-my-wild-friends-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/09\/leave-my-wild-friends-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave my wild friends be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O<!--more--> Badgers are extraordinary<br \/>\nIn forests around<br \/>\nCreatures of the high setts<br \/>\nDug out of the ground<br \/>\nOmnivores wild as the wind<br \/>\nBlamed apparently<br \/>\nFor sickening a farmers cows<br \/>\nAnd shot or gassed they be,<br \/>\nCountry people some of them<br \/>\nAristocratic fakes<br \/>\nHunt our beautiful foxes<br \/>\nAnd Deers and Hares<br \/>\nIt breaks<br \/>\nMy heart to see these ignorants<br \/>\nChase and torture and<br \/>\nListen to the others<br \/>\nWho then steal our precious land<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[749,119,377,114,189,272,731],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-badgers","category-duty-of-care-was-never-there","category-fox-hunting","category-foxes","category-hares-and-red-grouse","category-stags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69518","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=69518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69522,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69518\/revisions\/69522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}