{"id":928,"date":"2012-01-19T16:04:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2013-03-19T17:56:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:56:12","slug":"culling-dartmoor-ponies-because-not-enough-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/culling-dartmoor-ponies-because-not-enough-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Culling Dartmoor Ponies because not enough care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">For 300 years or so the Dartmoor Ponies<br \/>\nstrut their stuff<br \/>\nThey seemingly don&#8217;t notice<br \/>\nJack Frost<br \/>\nand all his mates<br \/>\nAnd the frozen Ponds<br \/>\nLike vagabonds<br \/>\nWith some clearly in dire straits<\/p>\n<p>But Ponies manage sort of well<br \/>\nIts those that are dumped there who<br \/>\nAre not use to the bleakness<br \/>\nof the moors and what to do<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s when the slaughter man comes in<br \/>\nAnd murders them for, he<br \/>\nNeeds to improve the genetic pool<br \/>\nWhich he does, annually<br \/>\nAround the time of Christmas<br \/>\nThe ponies fetched a Pound<br \/>\nPeople won&#8217;t look after them<br \/>\nSome dead on the ground<br \/>\nThe slaughter man was adamant of the actual need to kill<br \/>\nFor The Tigers up at Dartmouth Zoo<br \/>\nEnjoyed Pony goodwill<br \/>\nBut it shows you really in the past<br \/>\nPeople seemed to be<br \/>\nMore thoughtful and more caring<br \/>\nAnd prepared to go and see<br \/>\nHow the beasts were faring<br \/>\nIn what is a blustery Hell<br \/>\nBut now they are left to brave it out<br \/>\nThemselves, and it might be well<br \/>\nBut mostly they are suffering<br \/>\nThose cold dank winds that blind<br \/>\nIts really hard to just stand there<br \/>\nAnd take that now they find.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its a  great shame that not enough people now care for the Dartmoor Ponies and a lot end up in the knackers yard. <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/culling-dartmoor-ponies-because-not-enough-care\/\">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":[110,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6692,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/6692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}