{"id":5580,"date":"2008-01-07T06:13:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T14:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nurseryrhymesonline.net\/951\/the-farmer-and-the-stork\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T06:13:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T14:13:25","slug":"the-farmer-and-the-stork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork","title":{"rendered":"The Farmer and the Stork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Farmer placed his nets on his newly sown plough lands, and caught a quantity of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork also. The Stork, having his leg fractured by the net, earnestly besought the Farmer to spare his life. &#8220;Pray, save me, Master,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too at my feathers, they are not the least like to those of a Crane.&#8221; The Farmer laughed aloud, and said: &#8220;It may be all as you say; I only know this, I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Birds of a feather flock together. <\/p>\n<p> <em>Aesop<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Farmer placed his nets on his newly sown plough lands, and caught a quantity of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork also. The Stork, having his leg fractured by the net, &#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork\">[Continue]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4252],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-aesop","7":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Farmer and the Stork &#187; Early Childhood Education \u00bb Surfnetkids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Farmer placed his nets on his newly sown plough lands, and caught a quantity of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Farmer and the Stork &#187; Early Childhood Education \u00bb Surfnetkids\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Farmer placed his nets on his newly sown plough lands, and caught a quantity of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Early Childhood Education \u00bb Surfnetkids\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/surfnetkids\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-01-07T14:13:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Barbara Feldman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@barbarafeldman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@barbarafeldman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Barbara Feldman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/5580\\\/the-farmer-and-the-stork#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/5580\\\/the-farmer-and-the-stork\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Barbara Feldman\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3e2f1212635f23a64b4a3daf3083d77e\"},\"headline\":\"The Farmer and the Stork\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-01-07T14:13:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/5580\\\/the-farmer-and-the-stork\"},\"wordCount\":155,\"articleSection\":[\"Aesop's Fables\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/5580\\\/the-farmer-and-the-stork\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/5580\\\/the-farmer-and-the-stork\",\"name\":\"The Farmer and the Stork &#187; Early Childhood Education \u00bb Surfnetkids\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-01-07T14:13:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3e2f1212635f23a64b4a3daf3083d77e\"},\"description\":\"A Farmer placed his nets on his newly sown plough lands, and caught a quantity of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/5580\\\/the-farmer-and-the-stork#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/5580\\\/the-farmer-and-the-stork\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/5580\\\/the-farmer-and-the-stork#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Early Childhood\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nursery Rhymes\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/childhood\\\/nursery-rhymes-online\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Aesop's Fables\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/childhood\\\/nursery-rhymes-online\\\/aesop\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"The Farmer and the Stork\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/\",\"name\":\"Early Childhood Education \u00bb Surfnetkids\",\"description\":\"Surfing the Net with Kids\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.surfnetkids.com\\\/early\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3e2f1212635f23a64b4a3daf3083d77e\",\"name\":\"Barbara Feldman\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f6e46f3b8086ff1944261ad7589f4953e61a09467d9352840df2b96d32ad45bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f6e46f3b8086ff1944261ad7589f4953e61a09467d9352840df2b96d32ad45bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f6e46f3b8086ff1944261ad7589f4953e61a09467d9352840df2b96d32ad45bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Barbara Feldman\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Farmer and the Stork &#187; Early Childhood Education \u00bb Surfnetkids","description":"A Farmer placed his nets on his newly sown plough lands, and caught a quantity of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Farmer and the Stork &#187; Early Childhood Education \u00bb Surfnetkids","og_description":"A Farmer placed his nets on his newly sown plough lands, and caught a quantity of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork","og_url":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork","og_site_name":"Early Childhood Education \u00bb Surfnetkids","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/surfnetkids\/","article_published_time":"2008-01-07T14:13:25+00:00","author":"Barbara Feldman","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@barbarafeldman","twitter_site":"@barbarafeldman","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Barbara Feldman","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork"},"author":{"name":"Barbara Feldman","@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/#\/schema\/person\/3e2f1212635f23a64b4a3daf3083d77e"},"headline":"The Farmer and the Stork","datePublished":"2008-01-07T14:13:25+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork"},"wordCount":155,"articleSection":["Aesop's Fables"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork","url":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork","name":"The Farmer and the Stork &#187; Early Childhood Education \u00bb Surfnetkids","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/#website"},"datePublished":"2008-01-07T14:13:25+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/#\/schema\/person\/3e2f1212635f23a64b4a3daf3083d77e"},"description":"A Farmer placed his nets on his newly sown plough lands, and caught a quantity of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/5580\/the-farmer-and-the-stork#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Early Childhood","item":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Nursery Rhymes","item":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/childhood\/nursery-rhymes-online"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Aesop's Fables","item":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/childhood\/nursery-rhymes-online\/aesop"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"The Farmer and the Stork"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/","name":"Early Childhood Education \u00bb Surfnetkids","description":"Surfing the Net with Kids","inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/#\/schema\/person\/3e2f1212635f23a64b4a3daf3083d77e","name":"Barbara Feldman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6e46f3b8086ff1944261ad7589f4953e61a09467d9352840df2b96d32ad45bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6e46f3b8086ff1944261ad7589f4953e61a09467d9352840df2b96d32ad45bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6e46f3b8086ff1944261ad7589f4953e61a09467d9352840df2b96d32ad45bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Barbara Feldman"}}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}