{"id":313,"date":"2009-01-01T12:36:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T12:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/?p=313"},"modified":"2010-03-26T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T10:12:30","slug":"little-trotty-wagtail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Little Trotty Wagtail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-314\" title=\"*Wagtail - Park\" src=\"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Wagtail-Park.jpg\" alt=\"*Wagtail - Park\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Wagtail-Park.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Wagtail-Park-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LITTLE TROTTY WAGTAIL<\/p>\n<p>by John Clare (1793-1864)<\/p>\n<p>Little trotty wagtail he went in the rain,<br \/>\nAnd tittering, tottering sideways he neer got straight again,<br \/>\nHe stooped to get a worm, and looked up to get a fly,<br \/>\nAnd then he flew away ere his feathers they were dry.<\/p>\n<p>Little trotty wagtail, he waddled in the mud,<br \/>\nAnd left his little footmarks, trample where he would.<br \/>\nHe waddled in the water-pudge, and waggle went his tail,<br \/>\nAnd chirrupt up his wings to dry upon the garden rail.<\/p>\n<p>Little trotty wagtail, you nimble all about,<br \/>\nAnd in the dimpling water-pudge you waddle in and out;<br \/>\nYour home is nigh at hand, and in the warm pig-stye,<br \/>\nSo, little Master Wagtail, I&#8217;ll bid you a good-bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LITTLE TROTTY WAGTAIL by John Clare (1793-1864) Little trotty wagtail he went in the rain, And tittering, tottering sideways he neer got straight again, He stooped to get a worm, and looked up to get a fly, And then he flew away ere his feathers they were dry. Little trotty wagtail, he waddled in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,41,40,54,46,182,37,55,53],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","tag-dawlish","tag-devon","tag-john-clare","tag-oaklands-park","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-pond","tag-wagtail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}