{"id":22536,"date":"2015-08-15T06:13:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T06:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=22536"},"modified":"2015-08-15T06:16:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T06:16:12","slug":"when-twinning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/when-twinning\/","title":{"rendered":"When twinning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie A to you I say<br \/>\nThank you for being there<br \/>\nFor the people of Broome<br \/>\nIn Australia<br \/>\nI listen and I despair<br \/>\nWhy would you twin<br \/>\nYour town up with the<br \/>\nAnguish of Taiji<br \/>\nWhy would you want to bring<br \/>\nDown hard<br \/>\nTheir sick mentality<\/p>\n<p>The dolphin hunts are wicked<br \/>\nThey are evil and some more<br \/>\nUndignified and vulgar<br \/>\nCommercialized and raw<br \/>\nThe mortal trepidation<br \/>\nFor those pods caught in each drive<br \/>\nThe gracelessness and the clumsiness<br \/>\nAnd how few of them survive<\/p>\n<p>These are thinking caring<br \/>\nLovely souls<br \/>\nCreated never to be<br \/>\nSlaughtered in great numbers<br \/>\nIn the dark cove at Taiji<br \/>\nIts people truly satisfied<br \/>\nWith the unprepossessing way<br \/>\nWith the total hideosity<br \/>\nAnd are prepared to pay<\/p>\n<p>But for Broome to align itself<br \/>\nWith them<br \/>\nThe insentience it trails<br \/>\nThe unfeeling and the heartlessness<br \/>\nReally it just pales<br \/>\nInto an insignificance<br \/>\nThat mortals cannot see<br \/>\nCannot fathom cannot cope<br \/>\njust how can that be<\/p>\n<p>A pod of dolphins represents<br \/>\nJoyfulness and play<br \/>\nIts enchantment and exhilaration<br \/>\nAll along the way<br \/>\nThe family tree is evident<br \/>\nAs is all the delight<br \/>\nThe innocence apparent<br \/>\nIn what is eternal light<\/p>\n<p>Then Taiji stakes its evil claims<br \/>\nAnd the pods are torn apart<br \/>\nThe mournfulness the misery<br \/>\nIts straight from the heart<br \/>\nIts uncomfortable and harrowed<br \/>\nThe suffering they feel<br \/>\nAnd no regret and no remorse<br \/>\nThe dolefulness so real<\/p>\n<p>Their blood and guts<br \/>\nHang in the sea<br \/>\nThe cove turns red and they<br \/>\nMarvel at their prowess<br \/>\nThe fishermen who say<br \/>\nA lot but so much sorrow<br \/>\nIs reflected in the world<br \/>\nIn this generation breakdown<br \/>\nIn which the innocent are hurled<\/p>\n<p>I lament each passing<br \/>\nIts sickening for the soul<br \/>\nTheir beauty and sublimity<br \/>\nTheir perfection for the role<br \/>\nTheir elegance their radiance<br \/>\nBringers of such light<br \/>\nPaintable and handsome<br \/>\nTo be riddled with such blight<\/p>\n<p>Taiji its name is infamous<br \/>\nIts people they are too<br \/>\nOdious and repellant<br \/>\nIn exactly what they do<br \/>\nAnd Broome sits on its hands it seems<br \/>\nAnd accepts this infamy<br \/>\nIts the worst thing that a town could do<br \/>\nAnd i am sad as you can see<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie A to you I say Thank you for being there For the people of Broome In Australia I listen and I despair Why would you twin Your town up with the Anguish of Taiji Why would you want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/when-twinning\/\">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-22536","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\/22536","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=22536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22538,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22536\/revisions\/22538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}