{"id":20724,"date":"2015-04-16T16:54:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T16:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20724"},"modified":"2015-04-16T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T16:57:13","slug":"i-struggled-to-kill-the-bastard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/04\/i-struggled-to-kill-the-bastard\/","title":{"rendered":"I struggled to kill the bastard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They stalked me for miles<br \/>\nThat bloke with his gun<br \/>\nHe worked for chifuti<br \/>\nAnd,I was done<br \/>\nWith him on my trail<br \/>\nNot much could I do<br \/>\nFor 5 hours they came after<br \/>\nMe that was true<\/p>\n<p>The senses the Intrusion<br \/>\nThe inglorious way<br \/>\nThey approached in their camouflage<br \/>\nIn the height of day<br \/>\nA spectacular sky<br \/>\nAs blue as can be<br \/>\nAnd the light was so bright<br \/>\nAnd it shone down on me<\/p>\n<p>I aware of their smell<br \/>\nHunters stink<br \/>\nAll that sweat<br \/>\nAnd they piss in their pants too<br \/>\nShabby I bet<br \/>\nHow cocky they are<br \/>\nTheir brashness to me<br \/>\nIs very insulting<br \/>\nTheir discourtesy<\/p>\n<p>Paramount, surely a Bull such as I<br \/>\nIf I want to charge them<br \/>\nYea they will die<br \/>\nBut they have their rifles<br \/>\nI know that they can<br \/>\nFire at me, injure me<br \/>\nThat is their plan<\/p>\n<p>They want my ivory<br \/>\nI want it too<br \/>\nThese are my tools<br \/>\nAnd I know what to do<br \/>\nI am pretty old but my eye sight<br \/>\nIs clear<br \/>\nAnd my smell is as good<br \/>\nAs my ears , I can hear<\/p>\n<p>From quite a way off<br \/>\nSo head down,I go<br \/>\nDirectly at them<br \/>\nKeeping as low<br \/>\nAs I can to the ground<br \/>\nOn impact I will<br \/>\nDo as much damage<br \/>\nTheir blood I will spill<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as if we are murdering types<br \/>\nWe are vegetarians<br \/>\nBut our trunk swipes<br \/>\nAt  enormous power and<br \/>\nWhen I run them through<br \/>\nThey will not get up again<br \/>\nI promise you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They stalked me for miles That bloke with his gun He worked for chifuti And,I was done With him on my trail Not much could I do For 5 hours they came after Me that was true The senses the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/04\/i-struggled-to-kill-the-bastard\/\">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":[97,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20724","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=20724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20726,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20724\/revisions\/20726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}