{"id":7191,"date":"2013-03-27T11:17:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T11:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7191"},"modified":"2013-03-27T13:18:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T13:18:24","slug":"they-are-called-fanciers-but-i-fancy-they-ought-be-called-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/they-are-called-fanciers-but-i-fancy-they-ought-be-called-something-else\/","title":{"rendered":"They are called fancier&#8217;s but I fancy they ought be called something else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cross channel pigeon regattas or races<br \/>\nthere should be a lot of very red faces<br \/>\nabout but of course the great flutter is on<br \/>\nthousands of pigeons have all upped and gone<br \/>\nlorry loads congested cages that hold<br \/>\nmasses of faeces and feathers all rolled<br \/>\nup in it all  that  not many see<br \/>\nbut its there the despair and the mass cruelty<br \/>\n900 miles some have to fly<br \/>\nits clearly so sinful<br \/>\nfor most of them die<br \/>\nthis gruellingly painful expedition<br \/>\nis wrong<br \/>\nPigeon fanciers sing one sick song<br \/>\ntheir gassed drowned or killed<br \/>\nthats those who return<br \/>\nwhat a reward for that struggle to learn<br \/>\n&#8220;your out of the money&#8221;<br \/>\nand so worthless to<br \/>\nthe great pigeon fancier<br \/>\nwho wants to do<br \/>\nanything really to make sure that you<br \/>\nnever again fly the channel no stew<br \/>\nno pie, nothings coming<br \/>\nbut death his let down<br \/>\nwe must get this banned<br \/>\nand now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross channel pigeon regattas or races there should be a lot of very red faces about but of course the great flutter is on thousands of pigeons have all upped and gone lorry loads congested cages that hold masses of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/they-are-called-fanciers-but-i-fancy-they-ought-be-called-something-else\/\">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":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-and-the-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191","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=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}