{"id":21985,"date":"2015-07-10T07:38:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T07:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21985"},"modified":"2015-07-10T09:57:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T09:57:39","slug":"a-step-backwards-in-the-the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/a-step-backwards-in-the-the-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"A step backwards into the abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digging out a fox and then allow the hounds<br \/>\nTo tear<br \/>\nThe wild boy into pieces<br \/>\nTo horror and despairHunters they wear red coats<br \/>\nBlood significantly<br \/>\nFor in the pursuit of pleasure<br \/>\nThey murder mercilessly<\/p>\n<p>Our wild indigenous soulful creature<br \/>\nWhich has been resident here<br \/>\nWith as much right to be where it is<br \/>\nAnd these haughty men of fear<br \/>\nThe pompous pitiless plug ugly gits<br \/>\nWho ride the countryside<br \/>\nWith hardly an ounce of empathy<br \/>\nAnd their spitefulness denied<\/p>\n<p>Hiding under cloaks of culture<br \/>\nSo called men of class<br \/>\nHurtful, caustic and hard bitten<br \/>\nStuck up  men of brass<br \/>\nBut such cruelty is obvious<br \/>\nAnd so to repeal an act<br \/>\nWhere they took great long steps forward<br \/>\nAnd, it, publicly backed<\/p>\n<p>It to turn kindliness to malevolence<br \/>\nBenign to cruelty<br \/>\nThe hatred of a living soul<br \/>\nThe revulsion all can see<br \/>\nThe arrogance personified<br \/>\nThe defiance if you please<br \/>\nThe disrespect of property<br \/>\nIts all seen as a breeze<\/p>\n<p>The injurious call it hunting<br \/>\nAnd treat it as a sport<br \/>\nClad in fearsome crimson<br \/>\nHubristic men in short<br \/>\nTheir puffery is overdone<br \/>\nBravado so to say<br \/>\nTitled men have come to be<br \/>\nTraditionally  held sway<\/p>\n<p>To it, to the yeoman of the day<br \/>\nThe aristocratic gentry<br \/>\nOnce thought this ought to be<br \/>\nA spirt in which the hoi polloi<br \/>\nCould never ever see<br \/>\nDemeaning and unheroic<br \/>\nDiscredited I&#8217;D say<br \/>\nThose who hunt the foxes<br \/>\nCarry infamy and pay<\/p>\n<p>If Britain via the tory toffs<br \/>\nRepeal this law then we<br \/>\nDescend into a maelstrom<br \/>\nOf dark adversity<br \/>\nA lowering of standards<br \/>\nOf honour and regard<br \/>\nBack to a notoriety<\/p>\n<p>Of ingloriousness and this Bard<br \/>\nWill sicken in his purpose<br \/>\nFor wild souls seldom reign<br \/>\nAnd the so called men of courage<br \/>\nShould be met with real disdain<br \/>\nThey have to be put in their place<br \/>\nTaken to task today<br \/>\nMade to stop this spitefulness<br \/>\nAnd be on their way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digging out a fox and then allow the hounds To tear The wild boy into pieces To horror and despairHunters they wear red coats Blood significantly For in the pursuit of pleasure They murder mercilessly Our wild indigenous soulful creature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/a-step-backwards-in-the-the-abyss\/\">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":[114,189,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fox-hunting","category-foxes","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21985","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=21985"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21997,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21985\/revisions\/21997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}