{"id":25592,"date":"2016-01-02T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25592"},"modified":"2016-01-02T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:18:07","slug":"the-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/the-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"The bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This earthlings name was Bandit<br \/>\nProbably the reason why<br \/>\nthe human beings<br \/>\nChained him up and his name<br \/>\nLet them deny<br \/>\nTheir cruelty for this brave soul<br \/>\nWas never a criminal he<br \/>\nWas a gentle soul never a rogue<br \/>\nA lovely soul to see<\/p>\n<p>And then he was chosen to leave<br \/>\nHis chains and seek freedom<br \/>\nSome where new<br \/>\nPatted and cared and loved he was<br \/>\nHis chains removed its true<\/p>\n<p>At once he leapt into the air<br \/>\nYou could feel his joy<br \/>\nSnuggled up inside the hay<br \/>\nIt really was his ploy<br \/>\nTo show us just what freedom meant<br \/>\nHow much he now could play<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t have those weighty chains<br \/>\nTo weigh him down all day<\/p>\n<p>His gratitude and thankfulness<br \/>\nIt just filled all who saw<br \/>\nEach one of those sad cattle<br \/>\nWe truthfully ignore<br \/>\nWe go our own way every day<br \/>\nUnthinking of their  plight<br \/>\nIf we could only save them all<br \/>\nAnd try to do whats right<\/p>\n<p>For me personally I have avoided milk<br \/>\nFor over 70 years and it hasn&#8217;t killed me<br \/>\nIts the children now my tears<br \/>\nAre with so many little calves<br \/>\nLost and shot away<br \/>\nBuy ignorance and arrogance<br \/>\nThat just gets in the way<\/p>\n<p>Change this animals names at once<br \/>\nPerhaps lets call him sage<br \/>\nIn chains all those many months<br \/>\nFor him it was an age<br \/>\nAnd having them removed we shared<br \/>\nThe happiness he felt<br \/>\nAt the moment when the cards<br \/>\nWere shuffled and he was dealt<\/p>\n<p>A lovely hand of freedom<br \/>\nAnd so merry was he<br \/>\nMove off to paradise<br \/>\nIn a joyous rhapsody<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This earthlings name was Bandit Probably the reason why the human beings Chained him up and his name Let them deny Their cruelty for this brave soul Was never a criminal he Was a gentle soul never a rogue A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/the-bull\/\">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":[173,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-calves-and-cows-and-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25592","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=25592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25593,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25592\/revisions\/25593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}