{"id":11422,"date":"2013-09-27T12:34:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T12:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11422"},"modified":"2013-09-27T15:43:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T15:43:44","slug":"in-the-okavango-delta-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/09\/in-the-okavango-delta-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Okavango Delta Botswana  an elephant hit the dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its legal to go hunting<br \/>\nin the Okavango Delta<br \/>\nBotswana welcomes<br \/>\nhunters<br \/>\nwith their rifles<br \/>\nin their hand<br \/>\nwelcomes lots of ammunition<br \/>\nall of that is grand<\/p>\n<p>waiting like a infidel<br \/>\nin the bush in case<br \/>\nan unsuspecting Elephant<br \/>\nshould ever show its face<br \/>\nlook at it look at it<br \/>\nwisdom, age, all there<br \/>\naim the rifle, pull the trigger<br \/>\nthe bullets let him share<\/p>\n<p>watch it cut him down to size<br \/>\nwatch his blood run out<br \/>\nwatch the wondrous majesty<br \/>\nknow what its about<br \/>\ncrumble to the ground<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t even think to ever realise<br \/>\nYea you are the hunter<br \/>\nyour the hound<br \/>\noh yea as your as  bold as brass<br \/>\ncrouching in some hollow<br \/>\nwith a feather up your arse<br \/>\nhiding like a bandit<br \/>\nyour viciousness reviles<br \/>\na rare and handsome fellow<br \/>\nhas faced the torrid trials<\/p>\n<p>he was free and honest<br \/>\nand he alas must pay<br \/>\nhe boldly took his place on earth<br \/>\ntill you blew him away<br \/>\nAnd NBC flashed its demise<br \/>\nover people&#8217;s screens<br \/>\nwhat judgement that was<br \/>\none of what, must have been<br \/>\nthe vilest scenes<\/p>\n<p>and hearing that your ammunition<br \/>\nit was &#8220;ivory killing&#8221;<br \/>\nit chills me to the marrow<br \/>\nand you were champagne swilling<br \/>\nwhat exhilaration<br \/>\nwhat excitement wow!<br \/>\nyou hadn&#8217;t killed a rabbit and you hadn&#8217;t<br \/>\nkilled a cow<\/p>\n<p>you&#8217;d killed a bloody elephant<br \/>\na beast of high renown<br \/>\nsoon to be a rarity<br \/>\nyou should have a crown<br \/>\nyou should be a king<br \/>\nfor christ sake<br \/>\nHunters I don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nwhat you have inside of you<br \/>\njust makes me want to throw<\/p>\n<p>up!<\/p>\n<p>I feel so for that elephant<br \/>\nand for all earthlings who die<br \/>\nwho wander in the place<br \/>\nwhere they were born<br \/>\nunder the sky<br \/>\ninnocently hoping<br \/>\nthe experience they share<br \/>\nsets them up forever<br \/>\nbut instead some shit is there<br \/>\nready to take pot shots<br \/>\nand watch the master fall<br \/>\ncrumpled in a agonising<br \/>\nheap who broke a rule<br \/>\nhe put his faith in man un kind<br \/>\nhe tentatively dreamed<br \/>\nhe was safe and settled<br \/>\nuntil the Devil screamed!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its legal to go hunting in the Okavango Delta Botswana welcomes hunters with their rifles in their hand welcomes lots of ammunition all of that is grand waiting like a infidel in the bush in case an unsuspecting Elephant should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/09\/in-the-okavango-delta-botswana\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11422"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11424,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions\/11424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}