{"id":16730,"date":"2014-07-10T18:37:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T18:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16730"},"modified":"2014-07-10T18:40:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T18:40:15","slug":"just-another-dead-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/07\/just-another-dead-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Just another dead Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just another dead Lion<\/p>\n<p>just look at me long<\/p>\n<p>I used to be king<\/p>\n<p>I used to be strong<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The jungle was my self claimed<\/p>\n<p>kingdom until<\/p>\n<p>the human tribe came<\/p>\n<p>and my blood they did spill<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>in Mozambique the zone it came here<\/p>\n<p>and I was gunned down<\/p>\n<p>I am dead it is clear<\/p>\n<p>my life was cut short<\/p>\n<p>by the reign of the gun<\/p>\n<p>by those who profess<\/p>\n<p>to have us on the run<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the rancour we feel for those<\/p>\n<p>canned hunting sods<\/p>\n<p>disaffected and disloyal<\/p>\n<p>disillusioned bods<\/p>\n<p>who talk conservation<\/p>\n<p>whilst aiming their sights<\/p>\n<p>on the lives of the kings<\/p>\n<p>when our days become nights<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>tearing our hearts out<\/p>\n<p>removing our crown<\/p>\n<p>the blood and the snot<\/p>\n<p>as we go down<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>look at me long<\/p>\n<p>I was once strong<\/p>\n<p>I prowled the forest<\/p>\n<p>what I did wrong<\/p>\n<p>was succumb to the man tribe<\/p>\n<p>and let him see<\/p>\n<p>that I had a heart<\/p>\n<p>and a soul<\/p>\n<p>and could be<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>abused by his evil<\/p>\n<p>sunk by his vile<\/p>\n<p>reasoning sadly<\/p>\n<p>he did defile<\/p>\n<p>all the wild species<\/p>\n<p>even the king<\/p>\n<p>so corrupt is his being<\/p>\n<p>and what he does bring<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the canned hunting muscle<\/p>\n<p>its money and more<\/p>\n<p>its corruption and hatred<\/p>\n<p>its turned into \u00a0war<\/p>\n<p>of attrition for wild folk<\/p>\n<p>who live here in ease<\/p>\n<p>waiting to be shot<\/p>\n<p>or brought to our knees<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>odious unlovable two legged<\/p>\n<p>shits<\/p>\n<p>who smile and who pat our cubs<\/p>\n<p>thats where it sits<\/p>\n<p>trusting and being<\/p>\n<p>all seeing<\/p>\n<p>they will<\/p>\n<p>pick up and gun<\/p>\n<p>and bloody well kill<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>look at me all of you<\/p>\n<p>I am now gone<\/p>\n<p>once I was king<\/p>\n<p>in the jungle upon<\/p>\n<p>the pathways I lead<\/p>\n<p>and I gamefully tried<\/p>\n<p>to protect all the ladies<\/p>\n<p>who came from my pride<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just another dead Lion just look at me long I used to be king I used to be strong &nbsp; The jungle was my self claimed kingdom until the human tribe came and my blood they did spill &nbsp; in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/07\/just-another-dead-lion\/\">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":[102,123,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-lions","category-lions-and-their-meat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730","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=16730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16732,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730\/revisions\/16732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}