{"id":71082,"date":"2026-03-04T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71082"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:45:16","slug":"forcing-a-horse-to-do-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/03\/forcing-a-horse-to-do-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Forcing a horse to do more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is well treated<br \/>\nWhat a human feels<br \/>\nHe wants from an animal<br \/>\nAnd he reveals<br \/>\nand exhaustion<br \/>\nWhen the Animal may be<br \/>\nAching and needing to rest<br \/>\nTragically<br \/>\nHumans are selfish<br \/>\nArrogant and cruel<br \/>\nPiling on weight<br \/>\nExpecting the fuel<br \/>\nFrom the horse  pure<br \/>\nExhaustion and pain<br \/>\nAnd weakness and sickness<br \/>\nAgain and again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is well treated What a human feels He wants from an animal And he reveals and exhaustion When the Animal may be Aching and needing to rest Tragically Humans are selfish Arrogant and cruel Piling on weight Expecting the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/03\/forcing-a-horse-to-do-more\/\">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":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71082","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=71082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71083,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71082\/revisions\/71083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}