{"id":1582,"date":"2020-04-10T05:27:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T05:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2020-04-10T05:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T05:27:18","slug":"my-coronadiary-08-04-2020-im-not-a-pheasant-plucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/10\/my-coronadiary-08-04-2020-im-not-a-pheasant-plucker\/","title":{"rendered":"My Coronadiary 08\/04\/2020 – I’m Not A Pheasant Plucker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love our wildlife. I love it enough to pay a monthly donation to the World Wildlife Fund as I don\u2019t want to see any more animals become extinct or get badly treated. And, of course,\u00a0David Attenborough is a god.<\/p>\n

Because I\u2019m a country boy at heart, one highlight for me after working a night shift in Taunton (especially during this fine weather) is my 7am drive home across the beautiful Quantock Hills.<\/p>\n

This morning was extra special. A buzzard flew alongside my car for a few metres before spotting his breakfast and diving into a hedge.\u00a0A pair of foxes crossed right in front of me without a care in the world and I watched as a gang of crows mobbed a hovering kestrel who had flown too close to their nests. Either that or it was a Liverpool fan.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s champagne moment though was seeing a herd of about 10 red deer, including a stag, roaming across a field. I slowed down to watch these beautiful creatures for a few minutes before they disappeared into a wood. However, when I looked back at the road, I ran straight over a pheasant.<\/p>\n

Obviously I hate running animals over, but pheasants make it really difficult for themselves. They are the Donald Trump of the bird world: really fucking noisy and flashy but also utterly ridiculous and not very bright. They\u2019ve even got stupid haircuts.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019m off to bed. Behave yourselves and stay safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love our wildlife. I love it enough to pay a monthly donation to the World Wildlife Fund as I don\u2019t want to see any more animals become extinct or get badly treated. And, of course,\u00a0David Attenborough is a god. Because I\u2019m a country boy at heart, one highlight for me after working a night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195,212,476,554],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-attenborough","tag-donald-trump","tag-my-coronadiary","tag-quantock-hills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}