{"id":69953,"date":"2025-10-19T19:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=69953"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:16:32","slug":"nothing-else-better-to-do-than-stalk-and-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/10\/nothing-else-better-to-do-than-stalk-and-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing else better to do than stalk and kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A catapult and sickly mind<br \/>\nA prisoner who confined<br \/>\nHis empathy and compassion to<br \/>\nThe sodden earth for he must screw<br \/>\nThe tender necks the fluttery wings<br \/>\nA murder mission his heart sings<br \/>\nKilling and maiming goddess birds<br \/>\nI am a wordsmith losing my words \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f\ud83e\udda4\ud83e\udda9\ud83e\udda2\ud83d\udc13\ud83e\udd9c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A catapult and sickly mind A prisoner who confined His empathy and compassion to The sodden earth for he must screw The tender necks the fluttery wings A murder mission his heart sings Killing and maiming goddess birds I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/10\/nothing-else-better-to-do-than-stalk-and-kill\/\">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":[749,216,651,603,377,215,507,102,138,695,503,539,394,551,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-animal-sacrifice","category-coutryside-meanderings","category-criminality","category-duty-of-care-was-never-there","category-freedom-and-whats-happening-to-it","category-humanity-is-a-shithouse","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-sea-birds-and-bird-stories","category-shooting","category-skies","category-starlings","category-turtle-doves","category-walking","category-wild-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69953","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=69953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69955,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69953\/revisions\/69955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}