{"id":725,"date":"2019-08-01T03:39:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T03:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2021-12-09T23:23:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T22:23:42","slug":"cora-the-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Cora the Cow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">How Cora hates to be a cow<br> Hanging around, just anyhow<br> Seeking shade under the bough<br> Collecting flies on her broad brow<br> Ogling at the next-door sow<br> Who&#8217;s farting ceaselessly somehow<br> And jealous of the farmer\u2019s plough<br> That moves so unimpeded now<br> She&#8217;d love to run away, but how?<br> She munches gently hour on hour <br> Regurgitating boring chow <br> A practice I must disavow<br> A rude and strange bovine know-how<br> Ingenious \u2013 you must allow<br> For such a listless country cow<br> Boy, am I glad that I\u2019m a Frau<br> With all the gifts God could endow<br> Oh Cora p&#8217;raps I\u2019m too high-brow<br> My chewy friend and trusty cow.<br> But wait, before I mutter \u00abciao\u00bb<br> Here comes your lover Bill, right now <br><br>In neighbouring paddock stands our Bill<br> Having a quiet Sunday chill<br> He&#8217;s full of virtuous goodwill<br> So close to Cora it&#8217;s a thrill<br> His pulse goes into overkill<br> She doesn&#8217;t have a single frill<br> But next to her time just stands still<br> He&#8217;d have her of his own freewill<br> That bloody fence &#8211; if looks could kill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"51\" src=\"http:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/liner.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/liner.png 704w, https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/liner-600x43.png 600w, https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/liner-300x22.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Photo:&nbsp; Pexels.com \/ Lukas Hartmann<br><br>Copyright: Rosemary McGuire<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Cora hates to be a cow Hanging around, just anyhow Seeking shade under the bough Collecting flies on her broad brow Ogling at the next-door sow Who&#8217;s farting ceaselessly somehow And jealous of the farmer\u2019s plough That moves so unimpeded now She&#8217;d love to run away, but how? She munches gently hour on hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,41],"tags":[146,145],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals-in-rhyme","category-all-topics","category-poem","tag-bill-the-bull","tag-cora-the-cow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}