{"id":14800,"date":"2014-03-15T07:36:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T07:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14800"},"modified":"2014-03-15T07:49:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T07:49:12","slug":"manta-gills-gives-me-the-chills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/manta-gills-gives-me-the-chills\/","title":{"rendered":"Manta Gills (gives me the chills)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese really cannot keep their hands<\/p>\n<p>off<\/p>\n<p>any living creature, anywhere<\/p>\n<p>it seems that every part of every soul<\/p>\n<p>that was created<\/p>\n<p>has some piece of it<\/p>\n<p>no matter how rare<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>has some piece of it<\/p>\n<p>that will cure some illness<\/p>\n<p>ancient texts describe this<\/p>\n<p>so we hear<\/p>\n<p>if you ask me<\/p>\n<p>they are really as daf&#8217;t as brushes<\/p>\n<p>and TCM to me is steeped<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; font-size: 14px;\">with fear<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Giant Manta Ray<\/p>\n<p>is the great genius<\/p>\n<p>its flight alone<\/p>\n<p>is extraordinary to see<\/p>\n<p>hardly any movement<\/p>\n<p>yet it glides just like a bird<\/p>\n<p>and all the movement done so effortlessly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>another soul at risk<\/p>\n<p>it seems to me<\/p>\n<p>its gills are used<\/p>\n<p>in some fantastic potion<\/p>\n<p>the notion<\/p>\n<p>that the Chinese do believe<\/p>\n<p>already they are killing very many<\/p>\n<p>and in a nutshell what this does achieve<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>is the extinction of so many creatures<\/p>\n<p>Lions and Tigers suffering as well<\/p>\n<p>but Manta Rays that live for up to 50 years<\/p>\n<p>go into the pot, now known as Hell<\/p>\n<p>Traditional Chinese medicine<\/p>\n<p>involving animal parts<\/p>\n<p>has got to take a \u00a0big step back<\/p>\n<p>for its breaking too many hearts<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese really cannot keep their hands off any living creature, anywhere it seems that every part of every soul that was created has some piece of it no matter how rare &nbsp; has some piece of it that will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/manta-gills-gives-me-the-chills\/\">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":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manta-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14800","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=14800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14802,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14800\/revisions\/14802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}