{"id":2350,"date":"2012-07-08T17:53:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T17:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2013-03-19T18:50:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:50:48","slug":"the-seal-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/the-seal-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"The seal hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re bloody cowards<br \/>\ntheir rifles cocked<br \/>\nkneeling on the deck<br \/>\ntaking pot shots at wild seals<br \/>\nthe bullet breaks its neck<br \/>\nblood spurts every which way<br \/>\nclearly, the poor thing dead<br \/>\nfodder for the sea gulls<br \/>\nand the ships dog gets well fed<br \/>\nSeal Hunting on the ice floes<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s no chance for the seal<br \/>\nits murder in the first degree<br \/>\nwith all the hunters zeal<br \/>\nso paramount, I mean to say<br \/>\nthey do not get a chance<br \/>\nits close range killing<br \/>\npull the trigger<br \/>\nwatch the baby dance<br \/>\nits hard to face the wild winds<br \/>\nand somehow try to claim<br \/>\na little bit of sanity<br \/>\nfor the hunters have their game<br \/>\nI do feel very stressed for them<br \/>\nThey do nobody harm<br \/>\nand when approached their gentle<br \/>\ntheir caring and  their calm<br \/>\nI have to say men make me sick<br \/>\ntoting rifles and feeling slick<br \/>\nits not as if they need to eat<br \/>\nbut they take the seal and they even cheat<br \/>\nsteal its precious life they do<br \/>\nwhich mean&#8217;t as much as life does do<br \/>\nto all of us for less than it takes<br \/>\na babies heart of course it breaks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The infamous Seal Hunter firing their rounds off of ships <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/the-seal-hunter\/\">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":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","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=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6725,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions\/6725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}