{"id":23876,"date":"2015-10-13T18:16:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23876"},"modified":"2015-10-13T18:23:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:23:46","slug":"palmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/palmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Canned hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The epitome of holiday experiences<br \/>\nIs be hoodwinked into thinking that you are<br \/>\nAble to hand feed and cuddle baby Lions<br \/>\nYou pay a lot but come away a star<br \/>\nThats your environmental bit forever<br \/>\nYou probably get a plaque on how you did<br \/>\nThen the lions are always<br \/>\naround humans<br \/>\nReally the methodology to rid<br \/>\nThem of any frightening behaviour<br \/>\nThey come to trust the humans so no fear<br \/>\nThe second part of  the great holiday experience<br \/>\nIs select and shoot the lion that you hold dear<br \/>\nSo off you go the a big canned farm facility<br \/>\nThe adventure of your life and a guarantee<br \/>\nWhatever you can afford there are many options<br \/>\nBut you can bag a beast eventually<\/p>\n<p>You can walter palmer lure a lion away from a national park<br \/>\nThat costs a lot more but it has been done<br \/>\nIf you haven&#8217;t got  the money you can plump for<br \/>\nA giraffe<br \/>\nAll sorts of permutations and all fun<br \/>\nEven if you haven&#8217;t got a licence<br \/>\nNo matter the canned hunters have it made<br \/>\nThey are selling lion bones and calling them tiger bones<br \/>\nAdding other ingredients so thats puts paid<br \/>\nTo loss of margin for some operators<br \/>\nThey are making a killing after all<br \/>\nIf Walter Palmer can get away with killing the iconic Cecil we Can all  be judged by the same rule<br \/>\nThats the very precedent they were after<br \/>\nNow its  a free for all in<br \/>\nZimbabwe<br \/>\nCanned hunting is an anathema a horror based on hatred<br \/>\nFor a species<br \/>\nA farm where nothing actually is free<br \/>\nWild thats a short word  of the past<br \/>\nFor all the souls<br \/>\nAre caged or farmed or harvested<br \/>\nSo they say<br \/>\nGroomed to be some sick sods hunting trophy<br \/>\nTo hang up on his dusty wall some day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The epitome of holiday experiences Is be hoodwinked into thinking that you are Able to hand feed and cuddle baby Lions You pay a lot but come away a star Thats your environmental bit forever You probably get a plaque &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/palmer\/\">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":[102,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-lions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876","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=23876"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23881,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876\/revisions\/23881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}