{"id":17594,"date":"2014-09-11T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17594"},"modified":"2014-09-11T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T12:22:29","slug":"dolphins-how-they-fascinate-most-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/09\/dolphins-how-they-fascinate-most-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins how they fascinate most of us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sailing in the ocean<\/p>\n<p>the mighty ocean vast<\/p>\n<p>can be a very lonely place<\/p>\n<p>not a single mast<\/p>\n<p>can be seen<\/p>\n<p>for ever in \u00a0all directions<\/p>\n<p>then you see<\/p>\n<p>the dolphin tribes<\/p>\n<p>they gather<\/p>\n<p>and say Hello collectively<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>flashing through water<\/p>\n<p>like wondrous shafts of light<\/p>\n<p>playing with the bubbles<\/p>\n<p>they create<\/p>\n<p>their spirits bright<\/p>\n<p>to every lonely sailor<\/p>\n<p>who ever saw them they<\/p>\n<p>make you feel the joyfulness<\/p>\n<p>in their free display<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the total exaltation<\/p>\n<p>the abandonment they cause<\/p>\n<p>wallowing in the wonder<\/p>\n<p>unable just to pause<\/p>\n<p>a moment enraptured<\/p>\n<p>by their light<\/p>\n<p>their merriment is out there<\/p>\n<p>with gusto they invite<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>you feel you want to join them<\/p>\n<p>in their ecstasy of play<\/p>\n<p>leaping through the sunlit waves<\/p>\n<p>creating rainbow spray<\/p>\n<p>it is a blissful feeling<\/p>\n<p>a magical picture and<\/p>\n<p>that'[s what Dolphins do for us<\/p>\n<p>its as if its planned<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>everybody loves them<\/p>\n<p>everybody cares<\/p>\n<p>except it seems<\/p>\n<p>the Japanese<\/p>\n<p>who slaughter them in pairs<\/p>\n<p>who violate their joyfulness<\/p>\n<p>who prostrate them with woe<\/p>\n<p>who torture them with rigour<\/p>\n<p>which tragically does grow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>these are magical beings<\/p>\n<p>one Louis P{sihoyos<\/p>\n<p>made the film the Cove<\/p>\n<p>in that film he discovered<\/p>\n<p>how the men had drove<\/p>\n<p>these wonderful magical mammals<\/p>\n<p>into a killing frame<\/p>\n<p>to murder them in agony<\/p>\n<p>in some kind of cultural game<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the air of disagreeableness<\/p>\n<p>the anguish that they feel<\/p>\n<p>the shock that man is this unkind<\/p>\n<p>their martyrdom is real<\/p>\n<p>the hopelessness<\/p>\n<p>the desolation<\/p>\n<p>the uneasiness<\/p>\n<p>they feel<\/p>\n<p>being butchered<\/p>\n<p>so obviously<\/p>\n<p>startlingly so real<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>all feeling downtrodden<\/p>\n<p>laden with the woe<\/p>\n<p>almost accursed by it all<\/p>\n<p>when most now seem to know<\/p>\n<p>the magic that is the<\/p>\n<p>dolphins<\/p>\n<p>the courage they do show<\/p>\n<p>the care and unflinching valour<\/p>\n<p>that truly seems to grow<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">l<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But Taiji pipes an anthem<\/p>\n<p>hammers it home and we<\/p>\n<p>see the slaughter in the water<\/p>\n<p>and the cove red terribly<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sailing in the ocean the mighty ocean vast can be a very lonely place not a single mast can be seen for ever in \u00a0all directions then you see the dolphin tribes they gather and say Hello collectively &nbsp; 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