{"id":20761,"date":"2015-04-19T09:03:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T09:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20761"},"modified":"2015-04-19T09:03:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T09:03:37","slug":"begging-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/04\/begging-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Begging in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man resorts to begging<br \/>\nHis judgement shot away<br \/>\nHe has a faithful slave with him<br \/>\nShackled so to say<br \/>\nTortured made to sacrifice<br \/>\nHimself to help the cause<br \/>\nForce fed plastic bottles<br \/>\nAnd not allowed to pause<br \/>\nTo think to even remonstrate<br \/>\nHis predicament and we<br \/>\nWatch his choking antics<br \/>\nWhich he gives so grudgingly<\/p>\n<p>The beggar clearly ignorant<br \/>\nHow can he make that beast<br \/>\nSwallow plastic bottles<br \/>\nAnd as such enjoy the feast<br \/>\nHe clearly has no alternative<br \/>\nHis unwillingness we feel<br \/>\nProtesting his halfheartedness<br \/>\nAt the plastic bottle meal<\/p>\n<p>In pursuit of money<br \/>\nFrom interested  passers by<br \/>\nHe carries on the torture<br \/>\nMaking the camel cry<br \/>\nDistressing him like no one knows<br \/>\nTo his detriment alas<br \/>\nHe be of an arrant character<br \/>\nScandalous and crass<br \/>\nWhat he is doing is quite sinister<br \/>\nCalamitous in fact<br \/>\nGhastly awful and dreadful<br \/>\nAnd of course he does react<br \/>\nBadly under the pressure<br \/>\nA blasted vulgar way<br \/>\nOf calling in some favours<br \/>\nAnd making others pay<\/p>\n<p>It is a perplexing problem<br \/>\nA burdensome event<br \/>\nOne of awful suffering<br \/>\nHumiliation sent<br \/>\nThis camel to a dark place<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s loss of freedom seen<br \/>\nAs subjugation of the worst kind<br \/>\nAmounting to obscene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man resorts to begging His judgement shot away He has a faithful slave with him Shackled so to say Tortured made to sacrifice Himself to help the cause Force fed plastic bottles And not allowed to pause To think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/04\/begging-in-china\/\">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":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761","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=20761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20762,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761\/revisions\/20762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}