{"id":25802,"date":"2016-01-12T22:41:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25802"},"modified":"2016-01-12T22:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:41:03","slug":"a-portrait-of-a-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/a-portrait-of-a-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"A portrait of a Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at me<br \/>\nLook into my eyes<br \/>\nAnd what do you see<br \/>\nJust one pair of eyes<br \/>\nI reckon<br \/>\nBut what these old eyes see<\/p>\n<p>Is Africa disappearing<br \/>\nOur habitat is going<br \/>\nAnd this should be your wake up call<br \/>\nLike the river its not flowing<br \/>\nI scramble on the river bank<br \/>\nA few pools all thats left<br \/>\nAnd I am from the famous Massinda tribe<br \/>\nfeeling bereft<\/p>\n<p>The aridness is worrying<br \/>\nWe are losing<br \/>\nour identity<br \/>\nAnd all this is true<br \/>\nAnd a deep sadness from my  heart<br \/>\nWhich some are clueless too<br \/>\nTranscending the reality<br \/>\nOur supremacy once was<br \/>\nA place of regent wonderment<br \/>\nAnd now really because<\/p>\n<p>Man un kind is at it<br \/>\nThere is no order anymore<br \/>\nIts conformity or nothing<br \/>\nWe are  numbers now for sure<br \/>\nWe are an ephemerality<br \/>\nAnd fragility thats all<br \/>\nWe are now flying fugitives<br \/>\nExpected when they call<\/p>\n<p>Posterity might see us<br \/>\nStuffed in some American place<br \/>\nOur bones shipped off to china<br \/>\nGround up and the disgrace<br \/>\nOf being taken orally<br \/>\nBy the sick Chinese who<br \/>\nImagine that our powdered bone<br \/>\nIs their permanence come true<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at me Look into my eyes And what do you see Just one pair of eyes I reckon But what these old eyes see Is Africa disappearing Our habitat is going And this should be your wake up call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/a-portrait-of-a-lion\/\">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":[194,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-lions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25802","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=25802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25803,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25802\/revisions\/25803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}