{"id":6673,"date":"2021-05-01T22:27:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T22:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2021-05-01T22:27:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T22:27:54","slug":"mrs-badger-has-a-may-day-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=6673","title":{"rendered":"Mrs Badger has a May Day moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&nbsp;Mrs Badger writes\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Dear Mr editor,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May I crave the hospitality of you excellent Blog to announce, once more, that I have heard the first cuckoo of 2021. It was at 9 25 this morning (Saturday), from the vicinity of Maltkiln Woods. What a treat for May Day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I concede that I might not have the \u201cscoop\u201d on this, as I have been away for a few days, visiting a Gentleman Friend in Kent. I suppose a cuckoo can always slip one past you when you are not listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That notwithstanding, it is nice to see that Spring is officially here and with lockdown nearly over, we can all begin to get back in the saddle again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish everyone a splendid spring and an even better summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yours,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amelia Badger (Mrs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp;Thank you Mrs Badger. Always nice to hear from you. -Ed<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Mrs Badger writes\u2026. &nbsp;Dear Mr editor, May I crave the hospitality of you excellent Blog to announce, once more, that I have heard the first cuckoo of 2021. It was at 9 25 this morning (Saturday), from the vicinity of Maltkiln Woods. What a treat for May Day! I concede that I might not have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=6673\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mrs Badger has a May Day moment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1JD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6674,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions\/6674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}