{"id":20312,"date":"2015-03-13T10:06:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T10:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20312"},"modified":"2015-03-13T10:06:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T10:06:53","slug":"the-dying-dolphins-glimpse-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/03\/the-dying-dolphins-glimpse-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The dying dolphin&#8217;s glimpse of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiji has such foreboding<br \/>\nA dark shadow that does fall<br \/>\nAcross the cove<br \/>\nOut to the sea<br \/>\nThe drama of it all<br \/>\nA dolphin once was caught<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s throat slashed open<br \/>\nAs it died<br \/>\nIt recounted its exclusion<br \/>\nFrom the other side<br \/>\nThe outrage of this action<br \/>\nThe injury the shame<br \/>\nThe wickedness the cruel abuse<br \/>\nThe hearts of man inflame<\/p>\n<p>The damnable destructive<br \/>\nDeliberate design<br \/>\nWhat is the ultimatum<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s own death on the line<br \/>\nThe choking and the suffering<br \/>\nWhy was it happening now<br \/>\nThe vicious and the harmful<br \/>\nDeliberate and how<\/p>\n<p>Ones eyes of course still open<br \/>\nStill able to see<br \/>\nThe ocean and the notion<br \/>\nThat soon it cannot be<br \/>\nAlive to what is happening<br \/>\nAs death approaches fast<br \/>\nHow evil are the fisherman<br \/>\nThe die is clearly cast<br \/>\nThere is no guilt to speak of<br \/>\nOne has to feel the need<br \/>\nTo try to understand the Japanese<br \/>\nWhy they succeed<br \/>\nIn slaughtering us terribly<br \/>\nNot considering our true power<br \/>\nSlitting our throats, the agony<br \/>\nThe fatality of now<\/p>\n<p>Taiji has such foreboding<br \/>\nSo small and yet so sick<br \/>\nIn pursuit of financial gain<br \/>\nThey never miss one trick<br \/>\nCutting unto ribbons<br \/>\nDestruction of each pod<br \/>\nLeaving nothing now to chance<br \/>\nAnd using the rod<br \/>\nTo thrust into our spinal cord<br \/>\nTo bleed out in such pain<br \/>\nTo bash a cork into the wound<br \/>\nAnd so create more strain<br \/>\nI am but one sad. Dolphin<br \/>\nAnd soon I will be gone<br \/>\nNobody really cares a lot<br \/>\nOnce the sun had shone<br \/>\nDown through azure waters<br \/>\nA enlivened us for sure<br \/>\nBut now we are defeated<br \/>\nNow we are no more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiji has such foreboding A dark shadow that does fall Across the cove Out to the sea The drama of it all A dolphin once was caught It&#8217;s throat slashed open As it died It recounted its exclusion From the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/03\/the-dying-dolphins-glimpse-of-the-world\/\">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-20312","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\/20312","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=20312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20313,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20312\/revisions\/20313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}