{"id":14097,"date":"2014-02-13T20:49:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14097"},"modified":"2014-02-13T21:20:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T21:20:19","slug":"action-for-elephants-pallmalllondon-noo-till-3-30pm-132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/action-for-elephants-pallmalllondon-noo-till-3-30pm-132\/","title":{"rendered":"Action for Elephants (Pallmall)London Noon till 3.30pm 13\/2\/"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A matriach<\/p>\n<p>an older Bull<\/p>\n<p>a baby all were there<\/p>\n<p>In Pall Mall<\/p>\n<p>near to Marlborough Street<\/p>\n<p>in the Wintery air<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the sun was out<\/p>\n<p>but the wind was brisk<\/p>\n<p>the taxi cabs and van<\/p>\n<p>the great big lorries<\/p>\n<p>and the buses<\/p>\n<p>hooted and the plan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>was just to get<\/p>\n<p>some confirmation<\/p>\n<p>for the Ele breed<\/p>\n<p>and Ivory<\/p>\n<p>well wishers came<\/p>\n<p>and hoped we could succeed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It really is a tragedy<\/p>\n<p>whats happening to our kind<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">We are being poached by rotten men<\/span><\/p>\n<p>sadly now we find<\/p>\n<p>they want our \u00a0tusks<\/p>\n<p>our tools they are<\/p>\n<p>without them we are lost<\/p>\n<p>and they sell them off to China<\/p>\n<p>at an enormous cost<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">to us as precious icons<\/span><\/p>\n<p>us Ele&#8217;s who achieve<\/p>\n<p>still so much for tourism<\/p>\n<p>even though can you believe<\/p>\n<p>the carnage that is Africa<\/p>\n<p>and India, we know<\/p>\n<p>we are getting blown away<\/p>\n<p>wiped out<\/p>\n<p>the numbers grow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>thousands lost just last year<\/p>\n<p>bloodied in their prime<\/p>\n<p>that why we came to protest<\/p>\n<p>and thats why I pen this rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the blood of so many wet the<\/p>\n<p>earth<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">all around the park<\/span><\/p>\n<p>we are dying, we are suffering<\/p>\n<p>we have made our mark<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>on Africa we trumpet<\/p>\n<p>loud the music of the few<\/p>\n<p>to try to awaken<\/p>\n<p>those who say<\/p>\n<p>they love us, as they do<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>please \u00a0you have to save us<\/p>\n<p>we are here to be, we are<\/p>\n<p>we really make a difference<\/p>\n<p>in many ways we star<\/p>\n<p>in Nature&#8217;s real life drama<\/p>\n<p>against the murdering clan<\/p>\n<p>who see us as a sacrifice<\/p>\n<p>Please \u00a0help us if you can<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even the Police were jolly<\/p>\n<p>helped and thought that we<\/p>\n<p>protested very nicely<\/p>\n<p>very peacefully<\/p>\n<p>so many people hooted<\/p>\n<p>that made us happy, we<\/p>\n<p>can take each message back<\/p>\n<p>to share<\/p>\n<p>with the Ele Family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A matriach an older Bull a baby all were there In Pall Mall near to Marlborough Street in the Wintery air &nbsp; the sun was out but the wind was brisk the taxi cabs and van the great big lorries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/action-for-elephants-pallmalllondon-noo-till-3-30pm-132\/\">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":[173,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097","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=14097"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14099,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097\/revisions\/14099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}