{"id":12967,"date":"2013-12-16T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12967"},"modified":"2013-12-16T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T17:42:08","slug":"china-and-the-ivory-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/china-and-the-ivory-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"China and the Ivory Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inevitable<br \/>\nit rally had to happen<br \/>\nthe universe was being<br \/>\npeppered by<br \/>\nthe hearts and minds of many<br \/>\nanimals activists<br \/>\nwho saw the African Elephants<br \/>\nkneel and die<br \/>\nthe angst was felt around the world<br \/>\nfor certain<br \/>\nthe  market in their tusks<br \/>\nwas clear seen<br \/>\nthe Chinese are now clearly in the<br \/>\nthick of it<br \/>\nand realise the market is obscene<\/p>\n<p>it is after all the biggest<br \/>\nmost special animal<br \/>\nthat walks the land with thunderous aplomb<br \/>\nits tusk were clearly destined into China<br \/>\nit must have thus exploded like a bomb<br \/>\nin the hearts and minds<br \/>\nof Chinese diplomats<br \/>\nthey couldn&#8217;t not see what was there&#8217;s to see<br \/>\nthe gangsters and the poachers<br \/>\nand the money sloshing too and fro<br \/>\nclearly they just had to try to be<\/p>\n<p>on the front line giving it some welly<br \/>\nmaking laws that would frighten those who try<br \/>\nto slaughter all these elephants<br \/>\nthey have to make it stick<br \/>\nand that I think has been the reason why<br \/>\nif China makes the laws<br \/>\nthe poachers clearly<br \/>\nwill think twice about selling ivory<br \/>\nChina doesn&#8217;t mess with words<br \/>\nthat appears the policy<br \/>\nand therefore what&#8217;s been said<br \/>\nmay save the herds <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inevitable it rally had to happen the universe was being peppered by the hearts and minds of many animals activists who saw the African Elephants kneel and die the angst was felt around the world for certain the market &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/china-and-the-ivory-trade\/\">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-12967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967","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=12967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12968,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967\/revisions\/12968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}