{"id":13326,"date":"2014-01-02T16:08:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T16:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13326"},"modified":"2014-03-24T19:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T19:31:57","slug":"the-orangutan-and-suburbia-theres-a-message-if-we-can-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/the-orangutan-and-suburbia-theres-a-message-if-we-can-see-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orangutan and suburbia ( there&#8217;s a message if we dare to see it)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-prn1\/t1.0-9\/553067_455327777858382_1537264184_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In many ways this<\/p>\n<p>picture shows up the human race<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">shows us up for what we are<\/span><\/p>\n<p>how sadly the great pace<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>of living has depressed us<\/p>\n<p>our alleyways are dark<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">we are lost in all of it<\/span><\/p>\n<p>everywhere lies stark<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>all \u00a0because we are wishy washy<\/p>\n<p>really we can&#8217;t see<\/p>\n<p>but plonk an orangutan in that picture<\/p>\n<p>and then of course they be<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>so representative, of paradise<\/p>\n<p>that once \u00a0upon a time was there<\/p>\n<p>the green trees and the lovely flowers<\/p>\n<p>and a place we all could share<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a world so full of colour<\/p>\n<p>pictures of somewhere nice<\/p>\n<p>packed with life and oxygen<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">but we now settle for strife<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>for inner city mayhem<\/p>\n<p>contagion and the rest<\/p>\n<p>prostitution<\/p>\n<p>and unsanitary conditions<\/p>\n<p>which at best<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>show us really<\/p>\n<p>how we have<\/p>\n<p>alloswed ourselves to be<\/p>\n<p>manipulated by the corporate world<\/p>\n<p>and now what we see<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>are \u00a0orangutan&#8217;s their<\/p>\n<p>wondrous hue<\/p>\n<p>of red sticks out a mile<\/p>\n<p>it \u00a0brightens up the dingy<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">alleys<\/span><\/p>\n<p>perhaps for a \u00a0short while<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we see now<\/p>\n<p>just how basic<\/p>\n<p>and dreadful now where we live<\/p>\n<p>the basic frills are<\/p>\n<p>dustbin spills<\/p>\n<p>and rats<\/p>\n<p>which kind of give<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the place a hint of colour<\/p>\n<p>but basically we spoil<\/p>\n<p>every natural thing we touch<\/p>\n<p>we even spoil the soil<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>fill it full of chemicals<\/p>\n<p>and watch erosion come<\/p>\n<p>the human being<\/p>\n<p>was not all seeing<\/p>\n<p>he is in fact quite numb<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>his lungs are full of carbon<\/p>\n<p>his blood is full up too<\/p>\n<p>he&#8217;s sick and he is ailing<\/p>\n<p>and doesn&#8217;t know what to do<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the forests all are torn down<\/p>\n<p>for oil palm and the rest<\/p>\n<p>rate and cobras<\/p>\n<p>frequent<\/p>\n<p>nothing is now blessed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the corporates run the world today<\/p>\n<p>the people are their slaves<\/p>\n<p>the organutan&#8217;s are memories<\/p>\n<p>and there are many graves<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the planet itself is reeling<\/p>\n<p>the cities are below<\/p>\n<p>the soil that was fracked to misery<\/p>\n<p>as most of you may know<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In many ways this picture shows up the human race shows us up for what we are how sadly the great pace &nbsp; of living has depressed us our alleyways are dark we are lost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/the-orangutan-and-suburbia-theres-a-message-if-we-can-see-it\/\">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":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangutanperson-of-the-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326","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=13326"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15209,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326\/revisions\/15209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}