{"id":138,"date":"2011-11-14T18:33:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T18:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2011-11-14T18:33:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T18:33:11","slug":"it-wont-be-much-of-a-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/it-wont-be-much-of-a-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"It won&#8217;t be much of a Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">A lot of Turkeys are decidely jumpy<br \/>\nIts Jack Frost Time again and, it is cold<br \/>\nFarmers ruddy faces have been staring<br \/>\nAnd they call us names of counties and of gold<br \/>\n<!--more-->Actually God made us, we are Turkeys<br \/>\nOur life is bound up with the pure desire<br \/>\nNot to have our life wrenched from our gentle grasp<br \/>\nAnd be plucked and stuffed and cooked on some hot fire<br \/>\nBut just to pick and peck around the forest<br \/>\nAnd raise our families with what is God speed<br \/>\nA lot of Turkeys now are very nervous<br \/>\nAnd a lot will get the chop and they will bleed<br \/>\nThat is Christmas, millions of us die for you<br \/>\nto say<br \/>\nHappy Christmas Darling<br \/>\nHave a happy Day<br \/>\nPulling on our wishbone and just hoping<br \/>\nWhatever wish you make for you comes true<br \/>\nThe fact that we are frightened just a minor glitch<br \/>\nBut actually I am one of the few<br \/>\nThat possibly might just be spared this Christmas<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not very pretty any more<br \/>\nNow I will be used I think as pet food for some cat who pulls my bones across some floor<br \/>\nWell I hope it chokes its heart up thats all I can say<br \/>\nOne of my sharp bones might just do the trick<br \/>\nAt least if I must die to fill some rotten moggies gut<br \/>\nThen at least my sacrifice could make it sick<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t much now look foward to December<br \/>\nIts so cold and so uncomfortable to be<br \/>\nlistening to your children singing carols<br \/>\nFor I know that means they&#8217;ll soon be eating me<br \/>\nWe huddle in the barn so awfully fearful<br \/>\nAnd realise the end is very near<br \/>\nThe Farmer with his bloody awful apron<br \/>\nThrows us into crates, yes crates of fear<br \/>\nWe shiver for our plight we share together<br \/>\nWe know whats going to happen we&#8217;ve been told<br \/>\nStunned thats if we&#8217;re lucky, our throats cut then de feathered<br \/>\nHung, and drawn and then described as Gold<\/p>\n<p>Thats the latest gold standard you understand<br \/>\nWe are flesh and blood mate just like you<br \/>\nbut sacrifice is putting profits into Farmers Bank accounts and Supermarkets relish all this too<br \/>\nVictims we are victims of this outrage<br \/>\nit is an outrage we would all now say<br \/>\nGod never gave the gift of life for you to end it with your knife<br \/>\nand create a reason you call Christmas Day!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of Turkeys are decidely jumpy Its Jack Frost Time again and, it is cold Farmers ruddy faces have been staring And they call us names of counties and of gold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","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=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}