{"id":614,"date":"2020-10-07T18:40:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=614"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:32:39","slug":"horace-our-garden-hedgehog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=614","title":{"rendered":"Horace (our garden hedgehog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dark has cloaked the garden path<br \/>\nand the street light glints in<br \/>\nthe birds small bath,<br \/>\npast sweetly scented mint and sage,<br \/>\na shadow flits onto<br \/>\nthe silent stage.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Horace, right on cue<br \/>\non his nightly hunting<br \/>\nfor titbits new.<br \/>\nSlipping through the garden gate<br \/>\non an urgent quest,<br \/>\nand rarely late.<\/p>\n<p>Front paws resting on a dish<br \/>\nhe takes his time to drink,<br \/>\nno need to rush.<br \/>\nWhen he&#8217;s full from food supplied<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s off looking for<br \/>\na place to hide.<\/p>\n<p>We are one stop he has found,<br \/>\ngarden cafe on his<br \/>\nnocturnal round.<br \/>\nWe watch in hope at each days end<br \/>\nfor the shadow of our<br \/>\nvisiting friend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=970\">NEXT POEM &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark has cloaked the garden path<br \/>\nand the street light glints in<br \/>\nthe birds small bath,<br \/>\npast sweetly scented mint and sage,<br \/>\na shadow flits onto<br \/>\nthe silent stage.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Horace, right on cue<br \/>\non his nightly hunting<br \/>\nfor titbits new.<br \/>\nSlipping through the garden gate<br \/>\non an urgent quest,<br \/>\nand rarely late.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"margintop-large margintop-xlarge-l clear-both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=614#s\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Horace (our garden hedgehog)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-614","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}