{"id":23990,"date":"2026-01-04T15:38:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=23990"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:38:51","slug":"how-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/how-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"How sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this poor boy outside my house after I&#8217;d finished taking my outdoor Christmas lights down. He&#8217;d been gone for some time, I don&#8217;t know why. I didn&#8217;t move him for now but I couldn&#8217;t see any wounds on him and I doubt whether the few cold nights we&#8217;ve had lately would have been bad enough to have seen him off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/renard_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/renard_01_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/renard_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/renard_02_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/renard_03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/renard_03_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe someone poisoned him, but I now know who&#8217;s been taking the scraps left in the bowl overnight after I&#8217;ve fed the raggedy dog who often visits me for food and company, as she did today.<\/p>\n<p>But anyway, I won&#8217;t just throw the poor little soul&#8217;s body over the fence and into the trees. I&#8217;ll give him a decent burial more fitting for an animal who&#8217;s lived his whole life, short though it was, in Nature in the wild.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this poor boy outside my house after I&#8217;d finished taking my outdoor Christmas lights down. He&#8217;d been gone for some time, I don&#8217;t know why. I didn&#8217;t move him for now but I couldn&#8217;t see any wounds on him and I doubt whether the few cold nights we&#8217;ve had lately would have been &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/how-sad\/\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23992,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23990\/revisions\/23992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}