{"id":16989,"date":"2014-07-23T22:25:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T22:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16989"},"modified":"2014-07-24T21:39:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:39:44","slug":"elephants-and-ivory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/07\/elephants-and-ivory-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephants and Ivory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s growing middle classes<\/p>\n<p>top the scale<\/p>\n<p>and ivory is the essential<\/p>\n<p>gift it seems<\/p>\n<p>its iconic holds its value well<\/p>\n<p>and always looks the part<\/p>\n<p>and according to the Chinese<\/p>\n<p>whose net is cast<\/p>\n<p>tradition comes in here<\/p>\n<p>but the commodity<\/p>\n<p>holds its value well and sure enough<\/p>\n<p>makes the required margin<\/p>\n<p>its protection<\/p>\n<p>laoriously dealt with<\/p>\n<p>every day<\/p>\n<p>when its given from the heart<\/p>\n<p>it lasts in fact a lifetime<\/p>\n<p>and this is what we see<\/p>\n<p>a total lack of compassion<\/p>\n<p>and a loss of empathy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>black marketeers and traders<\/p>\n<p>are on the case world wide<\/p>\n<p>searching all the dealers<\/p>\n<p>the parasites that hide<\/p>\n<p>here there every which way<\/p>\n<p>gutter snipes indeed<\/p>\n<p>who pay out a kings ransome<\/p>\n<p>and will watch the ele&#8217;s bleed<\/p>\n<p>before they come to their aid<\/p>\n<p>watch them on their knees<\/p>\n<p>as the poacher man \u00a0is in his plane<\/p>\n<p>just above the trees<\/p>\n<p>gunning down the proud ones<\/p>\n<p>ambushing them at will<\/p>\n<p>hiding like a rattlesnake<\/p>\n<p>prepared to launch to kill<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>its all about the ivory<\/p>\n<p>nothing to do with life<\/p>\n<p>the Elephant is secondary<\/p>\n<p>and all the man made strife<\/p>\n<p>can never be disounted<\/p>\n<p>for its ivory that rules<\/p>\n<p>chop the tusks off rapidly<\/p>\n<p>by those we know as fools<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s growing middle classes top the scale and ivory is the essential gift it seems its iconic holds its value well and always looks the part and according to the Chinese whose net is cast tradition comes in here but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/07\/elephants-and-ivory-2\/\">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":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16989","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=16989"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16992,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16989\/revisions\/16992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}