{"id":1655,"date":"2012-08-10T20:45:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T20:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2012-08-10T20:45:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T20:45:30","slug":"a-hawk-among-the-hens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"A Hawk Among the Hens."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"39c6668e916543b4a7bf784d6ba1971d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2182508389013555\";\r\n\/* Med-Banner *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5485677463\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>     Gilbert White tells a most dramatic story of a neighbor who had lost most of his chickens by a sparrow-hawk that came gliding down between a faggot pile and the end of his house, to the place where his coop stood. The owner, vexed to see his flock diminishing hung a net between the pile and the house, into which the bird dashed and was entangled. The gentleman&#8217;s resentment suggested a fit retaliation; he therefore clipped the hawk&#8217;s wings, cut off his talons, and fixing a cork on his bill, threw him down among the brood-hens. &#8220;Imagination,&#8221; says Mr. White, &#8220;can not paint the scene that ensued; the expressions that fear, rage and revenge inspired were new, or at least such as had been unnoticed before; the exasperated matrons upbraided, they execrated, they insulted, they trampled. In a word, they never desisted from buffeting their adversary till they had torn him in a hundred pieces.&#8221;-Scribner for February.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilbert White tells a most dramatic story of a neighbor who had lost most of his chickens by a sparrow-hawk that came gliding down between a faggot pile and the end of his house, to the place where his coop stood. The owner, vexed to see his flock diminishing hung a net between the pile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,31],"tags":[190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}