{"id":6920,"date":"2017-03-20T07:12:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T07:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6920"},"modified":"2017-03-20T07:12:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T07:12:19","slug":"one-for-sorrow-two-for-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/03\/20\/one-for-sorrow-two-for-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"One for sorrow, Two for joy, ..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>... Three for a girl,\u00a0Four for a boy,\u00a0Five for silver,\u00a0Six for gold,\u00a0Seven for a secret\u00a0Never to be told,\u00a0Eight for a wish,\u00a0Nine for a kiss,\u00a0Ten for a bird\u00a0You must not miss.<\/p>\n<p>Magpies that is. I saw at the weekend that we have two nesting in a larch in the garden for the first time. \u00a0I have mixed feelings about these birds; a certain respect is due as they are, after all, a part of nature, but they are a mite (or should\u00a0that be might) too successful for my liking and are as good as the Maltese are at killing small birds \u2014 though not for fun, I suppose.\u00a0They are also strutting, noisy, brash, and braggartly with a staccato line in communication that is unbirdlike. \u00a0If birds had social media, magpies would be tweeting at 5 in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Does all this remind you of anyone? \u00a0Could be a tricky summer.<\/p>\n<p>.........................................<\/p>\n<p>NB, the <a href=\"https:\/\/allnurseryrhymes.com\/one-for-sorrow\/\">original<\/a> version of the verse I quoted at the start of the blog is said to be ...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One for sorrow,\u00a0Two for mirth,\u00a0Three for a wedding,\u00a0And four for death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although you'd have thought that \"birth\" would have been a happier rhyme in every sense, death might have been a more likely outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>... Three for a girl,\u00a0Four for a boy,\u00a0Five for silver,\u00a0Six for gold,\u00a0Seven for a secret\u00a0Never to be told,\u00a0Eight for a wish,\u00a0Nine for a kiss,\u00a0Ten for a bird\u00a0You must not miss. Magpies that is. I saw at the weekend that we...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}