{"id":23940,"date":"2015-10-17T17:21:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T17:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23940"},"modified":"2015-10-17T17:49:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T17:49:04","slug":"1610-japanese-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/1610-japanese-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"16\/10 japanese Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cloudy day in London<br \/>\nPiccadilly in our sights<br \/>\n101 to 104 ric o barry he invites<br \/>\nAll the people now who care<br \/>\nTo just come along and just be there<br \/>\nHolding a red rose in our hand<br \/>\nHelping us all to understand<\/p>\n<p>japan removed its ball of blood<br \/>\nRemoved its tired old flag<br \/>\nWanted to disassociate<br \/>\nItself from taiji&#8217;s tag<br \/>\nThe trees in hyde park&#8217;s golden leaves<br \/>\nHeralding autumn which achieves<br \/>\nSo much for all us for we<br \/>\nRemember our dear friends in the sea<\/p>\n<p>The bottlenose the risso who<br \/>\nHave all been slaughtered as they do<br \/>\nTorn to ribbons for pet food<br \/>\nAnd fertiliser its so crude<br \/>\nThese are mammals sharing air<br \/>\nThey love they grieve and of course they care<br \/>\nFor their sweet families by their side<br \/>\nAnd for humans too lost in the tide<\/p>\n<p>A sea of grey swept overhead<br \/>\nThe embassy where our eyes sped<br \/>\nBusiness as usual but not out here<br \/>\nWhistle horns and love and cheer<br \/>\nWe chanted loudly one by one<br \/>\nReally till the day was done<\/p>\n<p>Roses for  each dolphin who<br \/>\nDied already as they do<br \/>\nThe fishermen whose brutal way<br \/>\nIs to create chaos come what may<br \/>\nThen pith their spinal cord until<br \/>\nThey share with agony then spill<br \/>\nTheir precious blood into the sea<br \/>\nSo the cove is red inexplicably<\/p>\n<p>Each day that happens we all know<br \/>\nAnd we suffer yes we all suffer so<br \/>\nWe can feel our own hearts beating fast<br \/>\nWe feel alone and we aghast<br \/>\nHave their agony on our mind<br \/>\nAnd its very hard to then unwind<br \/>\nAll of us our sleep is poor<br \/>\nWe hear the waves upon the shore<br \/>\nWe suffer we so suffer so<br \/>\nFor we hope the cove is blue you know<\/p>\n<p>Klaxons horns and chanting we<br \/>\nMade our noise and where we be<br \/>\nStoked up the energy and sent it forth<br \/>\nInto the sky from east to north to west to south<br \/>\nJust every where<br \/>\nTo cast away all the despair<br \/>\nOur dolphin brethren are our friends<br \/>\nAnd each one of us quietly sends<br \/>\nIndividual love on high<br \/>\nHopeful no more souls will die<\/p>\n<p>Sadly claudia and i couldn&#8217;t be there but i soaked up enough of the atmosphere from the day on social media to be able to at least express a poem to you all <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cloudy day in London Piccadilly in our sights 101 to 104 ric o barry he invites All the people now who care To just come along and just be there Holding a red rose in our hand Helping us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/1610-japanese-embassy\/\">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-23940","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\/23940","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=23940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23942,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23940\/revisions\/23942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}