{"id":23483,"date":"2015-09-26T07:52:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T07:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23483"},"modified":"2015-09-26T07:58:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T07:58:01","slug":"dedication-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/dedication-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It does take dedication<br \/>\nTo go to the embassy<br \/>\nA whole day from the schedule<br \/>\nTo just be there and to see<br \/>\nThe super pod and others<br \/>\nGetting into gear<br \/>\nGiving them some welly<br \/>\nSoaking up the atmosphere<br \/>\nPaint slapped on your hands and heads<br \/>\nA placard held to show<br \/>\nEveryone who waltzes passed<br \/>\nWhat they ought to know<\/p>\n<p>Its a little place in Japan<br \/>\nA so called whaling place<br \/>\n3000 or so inhabitants<br \/>\nNow a big disgrace<br \/>\nFor they adopt a principle<br \/>\nOf going to the sea<br \/>\nWith little boats and banging pipes<br \/>\nAnd creating a melee<\/p>\n<p>In among the dolphin pods<br \/>\nWhich they drive then back to where<br \/>\nThey are pithed and sliced and tortured<br \/>\nAnd their bodies they then share<br \/>\nSome are sold to aqua parks<br \/>\nbut most are pithed to death<br \/>\nA rod inserted in their blowhole<br \/>\nTill escaping breath<br \/>\nIs shut off<br \/>\nThen this dagger is thrust into<br \/>\nTheir soul<br \/>\nIt may take twenty minutes<br \/>\nTo die<br \/>\nAnd to console<br \/>\neach dolphin<br \/>\nWe the activists must send<br \/>\nOur heartbreak to<br \/>\nTheir side as they lay dying<br \/>\nIn what is their blood its true<\/p>\n<p>Its the ugliest nastiest evil<br \/>\nAnd there butchers do it they<br \/>\nKill babies and kill mothers<br \/>\nNobody can say<br \/>\nThese fishermen are anything<br \/>\nBut the butchers of the sea<br \/>\nThey need a bloody good hiding<br \/>\nAnd this banned immediately<\/p>\n<p>So the dedicated friends of dolphins<br \/>\nPeriodically<br \/>\nGo off to Piccadilly<br \/>\nTo the embassy<br \/>\nWe stand there in all weathers<br \/>\nAnd shout our hearts out and<br \/>\nLike this bold soul it becomes our role<br \/>\nTo save them our sweet band<br \/>\nOf dedicated warriors<br \/>\nSo give them credence for<br \/>\nWhat they do for dolphins<br \/>\nAnd will do for evermore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It does take dedication To go to the embassy A whole day from the schedule To just be there and to see The super pod and others Getting into gear Giving them some welly Soaking up the atmosphere Paint slapped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/dedication-2\/\">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":[173,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-orcas-and-dolphins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483","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=23483"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23488,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483\/revisions\/23488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}