{"id":70513,"date":"2025-12-19T18:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=70513"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:54:10","slug":"a-living-decoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-living-decoy\/","title":{"rendered":"A living decoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average duck hunter<br \/>\nLacks any compassion<br \/>\nHeartless these vagrants<br \/>\nTrue sense they ration<br \/>\nAbusing a duck by forcing it to<br \/>\nAct as a decoy to draw down a few<br \/>\nInnocent ducks flying on high<br \/>\nSeeing a wild duck no word of a lie<br \/>\nA meaningless act to attract<br \/>\nJust more birds<br \/>\nSuch a cynical act<br \/>\nI am lost for words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average duck hunter Lacks any compassion Heartless these vagrants True sense they ration Abusing a duck by forcing it to Act as a decoy to draw down a few Innocent ducks flying on high Seeing a wild duck no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-living-decoy\/\">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":[905,22,379,377,507,102,695],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-death-and-dying","category-ducks","category-duty-of-care-was-never-there","category-humanity-is-a-shithouse","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70513","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=70513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70514,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70513\/revisions\/70514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}