{"id":4265,"date":"2008-12-24T11:25:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T16:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2008-12-24T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T16:25:18","slug":"gobbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4265","title":{"rendered":"Gobbles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/article2067990.ece\">Wilbur<\/a> the turkey has been spared a messy end on the dinner table this Christmas \u2014 as he\u2019s not very bootiful.<\/p>\n<p>Customers were put off by the nine-month-old Norfolk Black\u2019s \u201csad and bedraggled\u201d appearance.<\/p>\n<p>He is underweight, has no tail feathers, a misshapen body \u2014 and walks with a limp. <\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>But the good news for Wilbur is that soft-hearted Peter, 66, and wife Jackie, 64, are going to keep him as a pet at the farm in Totnes, Devon.<\/p>\n<p>Peter, chairman of the Turkey Club UK, said Wilbur will live out his days in a \u201chappy and peaceful\u201d retirement \u2014 free to roam the 72-acre farm alongside the cattle, ducks, chickens and breeding turkeys.<\/p>\n<p>Dad-of-four Peter added: \u201cOne thing\u2019s for sure \u2014 he\u2019s the luckiest little bird in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWilbur will become one of the family. He might be an ugly old thing, but we think he\u2019s lovely.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/i9.photobucket.com\/albums\/a92\/taaatdthrice\/gobbles.gif\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Timmeh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilbur the turkey has been spared a messy end on the dinner table this Christmas \u2014 as he\u2019s not very bootiful. Customers were put off by the nine-month-old Norfolk Black\u2019s \u201csad and bedraggled\u201d appearance. He is underweight, has no tail feathers, a misshapen body \u2014 and walks with a limp. ... But the good news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}