{"id":25930,"date":"2016-01-19T17:11:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T17:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25930"},"modified":"2016-01-19T17:33:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T17:33:02","slug":"buddhism-and-elephants-seldom-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/buddhism-and-elephants-seldom-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhism and elephants seldom mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These buddhists should stick to their temples<br \/>\nAnd leave,the animals be<br \/>\nThey clearly have no bloody idea<br \/>\nAbout it<br \/>\nThats really if you ask me<\/p>\n<p>Why is it they poke them and hit them<br \/>\nWhy don&#8217;t they leave them alone<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t want to pad about on<br \/>\nTarmac streets<br \/>\nIt just aggravates joints and bone<\/p>\n<p>Look at that mahout he is crazy<br \/>\nTapping and making him feel<br \/>\nTense there&#8217;s no sense in him being<br \/>\nThere where he is so get real<\/p>\n<p>He needs to be with other elephants<br \/>\nIts cruel and unkind to be there<br \/>\nIts an insensibility sadly<br \/>\nThat drives a wild soul to despair<\/p>\n<p>And then they don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nwhat they are doing<br \/>\nAnd obviously<br \/>\nthat isn&#8217;t fair<\/p>\n<p>He just wants to give him bananas<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s uneasy around him you see<br \/>\nIts a tedious business mucking about<br \/>\nAnd so uninspired actually<\/p>\n<p>And Elephants do get bored easily<br \/>\nThey need a way out  yes they do<br \/>\nBig bulky pachyderms wondering why<br \/>\nThey are not somewhere enjoying the view<\/p>\n<p>Monks do not work at remembering<br \/>\nThis is the problem they face<br \/>\nThe temple really  is no sanctuary<br \/>\nIt might be for monks and a few hangers on<br \/>\nBut Elephants need to be free<\/p>\n<p>They will fret and clearly feel jumpy<br \/>\nThey get skittish and nervy for they<br \/>\nNeed to be knowing what they are doing<br \/>\nOr they just want  to be on their way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These buddhists should stick to their temples And leave,the animals be They clearly have no bloody idea About it Thats really if you ask me Why is it they poke them and hit them Why don&#8217;t they leave them alone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/buddhism-and-elephants-seldom-mix\/\">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":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25930","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=25930"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25935,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25930\/revisions\/25935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}