{"id":24177,"date":"2015-10-27T11:05:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T11:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=24177"},"modified":"2015-10-27T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T11:16:04","slug":"grandfather-bear-a-story-of-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/grandfather-bear-a-story-of-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandfather bear a story of Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A victim of human destructive ability<br \/>\nAn old bear half blind and alone<br \/>\nLiving deep in the forest<br \/>\nA florida Forest<br \/>\nHarvested that was the tone<\/p>\n<p>Shot to death sporting some vintage<br \/>\nHandicapped sadly was he<br \/>\nConsidered superfluous by human kind<br \/>\nA complete waste of  time actually<\/p>\n<p>But he was a stalwart supporter<br \/>\nOf the forests and all that was there<br \/>\nHe kept well away from the beings on  two legs<br \/>\nThey tended to bring more despair<\/p>\n<p>He was strong still he limped<br \/>\nBut he still got about<br \/>\nMore slowly of course but he could<br \/>\nFind berries and buds he could manage<br \/>\nHis diet<br \/>\nAnd life for him it had been good<\/p>\n<p>He knew that some young bears<br \/>\nHad gone into the towns<br \/>\nAnd raided the bins it was known<br \/>\nBut he kept himself to himself<br \/>\nHe was old<br \/>\nThough that sort of knowledge had grown<\/p>\n<p>Age brings its own sense of wisdom<br \/>\nAs the gait slows the heart carries on<br \/>\nThe senses are heightened<br \/>\nThe grey matter too<br \/>\nWhere the instinctive patter<br \/>\nIs gone<\/p>\n<p>The new world creates a new picture<br \/>\nAnd this old soul followed its course<br \/>\nTill a hunter man came with such arrogance thought<br \/>\nAnd wanted of course just to force<\/p>\n<p>His way on the old bear completely<br \/>\nShot him to death with one click<br \/>\nThe youth of today can never hold sway<br \/>\nFor the digital mobsters are thick<\/p>\n<p>The grandfather bear<br \/>\nLay in his lair<br \/>\nResting his heart and his soul<br \/>\nFlorida hunt decided their punt<br \/>\nWas worthy to establish control<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of wild souls were slaughtered<br \/>\nTriggers were pulled everywhere<br \/>\nHundreds of babies left dying<br \/>\nThe forest is  one of despair<\/p>\n<p>Florida your rewards coming<br \/>\nAs tourists and others decide<br \/>\nNot to come visit but to boycott your place<br \/>\nYour forests and your countryside<\/p>\n<p>Exchanging currency<br \/>\nExchanging trade<br \/>\nWith monsters who go<br \/>\nBy themselves to parade<br \/>\nDead bears around is not seen to be<br \/>\nAny place we wish to go actually<\/p>\n<p>FLORIDA you have cooked your own books i an all My friends<br \/>\nWill never darken your doors again ever<br \/>\nOur  currency you have lost.  Be happy <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A victim of human destructive ability An old bear half blind and alone Living deep in the forest A florida Forest Harvested that was the tone Shot to death sporting some vintage Handicapped sadly was he Considered superfluous by human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/grandfather-bear-a-story-of-florida\/\">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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177","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=24177"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24184,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177\/revisions\/24184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}