{"id":25977,"date":"2016-01-22T19:08:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T19:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25977"},"modified":"2016-01-22T19:08:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T19:08:50","slug":"canned-hunted-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/canned-hunted-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Canned hunted Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A despicable conclusion to a cowardly<br \/>\nWay of life<br \/>\nOr should  I say existence<br \/>\nIn our world of utter strife<br \/>\nThe canned hunters low on thoughtfulness<br \/>\nTheir ego&#8217;s blazing high<br \/>\nHave gone and killed an innocent<br \/>\nWith real fire in its eye<\/p>\n<p>Paid their lousy pittance<br \/>\nTheir ill gotten gains across<br \/>\nAccessing true violence<br \/>\nThey didn&#8217;t give a toss<br \/>\nFor a Lion with natural spirit<br \/>\nWith a woeful turn of heel<br \/>\nThey gunned the animal earthling down<br \/>\nAnd didn&#8217;t even feel<\/p>\n<p>Anything the heartless brutes<br \/>\nThe vile and ugly knaves<br \/>\nRuffians of roguery<br \/>\nThat can only fail<br \/>\nSlobs who sit their smiling<br \/>\nWith the Lion propped up and dead<br \/>\nAnd leafy necklace around its throat<br \/>\nAs I gaze at its sad head<\/p>\n<p>This is their so called trophy<br \/>\nThis is their desire<br \/>\nDisrespectful bastards<br \/>\nWith their gloating dark attire<br \/>\nIll wishing cussed and spiteful<br \/>\nA malignant bunch of ill<br \/>\nLets curse the ground they sit upon<br \/>\nFor we have had our fill<\/p>\n<p>Of their threatening behaviour<br \/>\nTheir ominous display<br \/>\nTheir sabre rattling bluster<br \/>\nTheir conscience shot away<br \/>\nHooligans of horror<br \/>\nVandals of the night<br \/>\nRecidivists whose recklessness<br \/>\nHave withdrawn this earthlings light<\/p>\n<p>Sent its soul to the summer bridge<br \/>\nIts mouth propped open so<br \/>\nWe all can see its canines<br \/>\nIn the night they almost glow<br \/>\nA ring of leaves placed sadistically<br \/>\nAround the dead lions throat<br \/>\nI commiserate with its spirit<br \/>\nThe unbeholden note<\/p>\n<p>It took all of those evil men&#8217;s<br \/>\nWild justice to proclaim<br \/>\nThey were the avengers<br \/>\nHe perished in a flame<br \/>\nOf ugliness and envy<br \/>\nFor a wild soul who once felt<br \/>\nA freedom from our shackles<br \/>\nAs before their guns he knelt<\/p>\n<p>They paid with dirty money<br \/>\nStolen from the poor<br \/>\nExacted from the children<br \/>\nFed on blood and gore<br \/>\nVindictive spiteful monsters<br \/>\nBreathing sharing air<br \/>\nWith courage and with gratitude<br \/>\nFor really being there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A despicable conclusion to a cowardly Way of life Or should I say existence In our world of utter strife The canned hunters low on thoughtfulness Their ego&#8217;s blazing high Have gone and killed an innocent With real fire in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/canned-hunted-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":[173,102,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-lions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25977","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=25977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25978,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25977\/revisions\/25978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}