{"id":14256,"date":"2014-02-20T09:45:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T09:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14256"},"modified":"2014-02-20T09:49:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T09:49:04","slug":"the-albino-dolphin-of-taiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/the-albino-dolphin-of-taiji\/","title":{"rendered":"The Albino Dolphin of Taiji  &#8220;Shouju&#8221; or Angel as some have called her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taiji Museum<\/p>\n<p>is now to where<\/p>\n<p>they go to watch the little calf<\/p>\n<p>whose despair<\/p>\n<p>is evidenced by the continued<\/p>\n<p>refrain<\/p>\n<p>as she circles the tank again and again<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the caption reads she looks<\/p>\n<p>to find her mama<\/p>\n<p>but reality told her<\/p>\n<p>that she is far<\/p>\n<p>far away in the land where all dead dolphins go<\/p>\n<p>at the hand of the japanese<\/p>\n<p>she does now know<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>her mother chose suicide<\/p>\n<p>she coudn&#8217;t bear<\/p>\n<p>to see her babe captured<\/p>\n<p>a baby so rare<\/p>\n<p>she knew she would die<\/p>\n<p>at their hands anyway<\/p>\n<p>and took it on herself<\/p>\n<p>to die and to pay<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the ultimate sacrifice<\/p>\n<p>that final fling<\/p>\n<p>she went down to the bottom<\/p>\n<p>and just couldn&#8217;t bring<\/p>\n<p>herself back to seeing<\/p>\n<p>the inevitable, she<\/p>\n<p>knew her sweet baby<\/p>\n<p>was lost tragically<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those fishermen realised<\/p>\n<p>what they had there<\/p>\n<p>was money in the bank<\/p>\n<p>a yen storm so rare<\/p>\n<p>they split up the family<\/p>\n<p>but they didn&#8217;t care<\/p>\n<p>if the mother died<\/p>\n<p>they were all \u00a0unaware<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a hard race of cold hearted<\/p>\n<p>people who will<\/p>\n<p>take the advantage<\/p>\n<p>blood they will spill<\/p>\n<p>it matters not to them<\/p>\n<p>for what they do<\/p>\n<p>the albino dolphin<\/p>\n<p>is there still on view<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>its frustrating swim<\/p>\n<p>it mum on its mind<\/p>\n<p>as for the rest of its journey<\/p>\n<p>its blind<\/p>\n<p>to life as we know it<\/p>\n<p>one day it will go<\/p>\n<p>the way of its mother<\/p>\n<p>that fact we all know<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it knows she&#8217;s \u00a0not there<\/p>\n<p>for her voice it is quiet<\/p>\n<p>no communication<\/p>\n<p>out of the light<\/p>\n<p>she swims round and round<\/p>\n<p>in her cycle of fear<\/p>\n<p>a lost soul<\/p>\n<p>her main role<\/p>\n<p>to remind us<\/p>\n<p>its clear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taiji Museum is now to where they go to watch the little calf whose despair is evidenced by the continued refrain as she circles the tank again and again &nbsp; the caption reads she looks to find her mama &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/the-albino-dolphin-of-taiji\/\">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":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orcas-and-dolphins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14256","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=14256"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14260,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14256\/revisions\/14260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}