{"id":8446,"date":"2013-04-15T13:29:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=8446"},"modified":"2013-04-15T13:29:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:29:51","slug":"simple-things-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=8446","title":{"rendered":"Simple Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Hens<\/h2>\n<p>What could be simpler than a hen?<\/p>\n<p>I have always wanted hens<br \/>\nI point them out in the field whenever I notice them<br \/>\n\u201cOh! Look! hens!\u201d I say as if it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve seen them<br \/>\nI look at them in pet centres<br \/>\nI envy folks that have a few in their gardens<br \/>\nMy brother has hens living next door to him<br \/>\nI go to visit \u2018the girls\u2019 as soon as we arrive there!<br \/>\nI collect the food from the meal for them\u2026and not just the leftovers<br \/>\nIs it wrong to feed chicken to them?<br \/>\nOr chips?<br \/>\nMy brother\u2019s hen neighbours love his sausage cassoulet<br \/>\nHens fascinate me and I\u2019m just not sure why<br \/>\nThe look of them?<br \/>\nThe colours?<br \/>\nThe way they walk?<br \/>\nthe way they run?<br \/>\nThe way they live?<br \/>\nThe fact that they lay eggs?<br \/>\nThe noise they make?<br \/>\nI would call them \u2018my girls\u2019<br \/>\nI would treat them so well<br \/>\nBut I can\u2019t have them, they would drive Pepsi nuts and who would care for them when I wasn\u2019t here?<br \/>\nI\u2019ll just continue with my fascination<br \/>\nAnd photograph them<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember the garden centre that sells sheds and sewing machines that I told you about <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=8398\">here?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They have hens too, and a turkey and a few ducks and a very grumpy goose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Hen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Hen.jpg\" alt=\"Hen\" width=\"500\"class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Hen.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Hen-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Hen-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hens-turkey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hens-turkey.jpg\" alt=\"hens turkey\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hens-turkey.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hens-turkey-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hens-turkey-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Goose.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Goose.jpg\" alt=\"Goose\" width=\"500\"class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Goose.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Goose-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Goose-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hens What could be simpler than a hen? I have always wanted hens I point them out in the field whenever I notice them \u201cOh! Look! hens!\u201d I say as if it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve seen them I look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=8446\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simple-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8446"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8454,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8446\/revisions\/8454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}