{"id":26337,"date":"2016-02-14T13:33:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T13:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26337"},"modified":"2016-02-14T13:39:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T13:39:51","slug":"the-noble-orca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-noble-orca\/","title":{"rendered":"The noble Orca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mammal of distinction<br \/>\nWith an  ancestry of old<br \/>\nThe largest brain ever<br \/>\nTo evolve or so I am told<br \/>\nIt has enormous courage<br \/>\nAnd audacity<br \/>\nA fearlessness beyond all fear<br \/>\nAnd wondrous chivalry<\/p>\n<p>ITs greatness is unmatched<br \/>\nIt transcends and does control<br \/>\nProdigious its intelligence<br \/>\nSo Aware of its role<br \/>\nIts supremacy is sovereign<br \/>\nSurpassing on the whole<br \/>\nEverything that lives and breathes<br \/>\nThe embodiment of soul<\/p>\n<p>Always it be curious<br \/>\nAnd creative through and through<br \/>\nIn infinity indefinitely<br \/>\nTimelessness it drew<br \/>\nAn Aeonian displacement<br \/>\nA perpetuity its birthright<br \/>\nAnd its expectations<br \/>\ncreatures of the light<\/p>\n<p>A strength and a great vigorousness<br \/>\nAnd a tolerance too<br \/>\nHoled up in some Sea World pond<br \/>\nJust expected to do<br \/>\nSimple tricks the man made stuff<br \/>\nAnd this a complex beast<br \/>\nWith far more grey cells<br \/>\nIn its head<br \/>\nIn which to enjoy its feast<\/p>\n<p>If it wanted to<br \/>\nNo trainer would stand an earthly chance<br \/>\nThe corporate chain of high command<br \/>\nWouldn&#8217;t get a second glance<br \/>\nTheir parentage lost in some womb<br \/>\nOf circumstance below<br \/>\nThe gutter of creation<br \/>\nLost in a world of woe<\/p>\n<p>They are a revelation<br \/>\nImpressive in their look<br \/>\nBlack and white and so in the light<br \/>\nClearly brought to book<br \/>\nAn emanation really<br \/>\nAn ocular display<br \/>\nA pleasure to each eye ball<br \/>\nWatching in the spray<\/p>\n<p>Conceptual and perceptive<br \/>\nInventive even so<br \/>\nAll can really speculate<br \/>\nAnd thus their thoughts can grow<br \/>\nExtra sensory perception<br \/>\nAnd mentation all the way<br \/>\nIs meditative and imaginative<br \/>\nWhen it comes to work and play<\/p>\n<p>Its attack is seldom futile<br \/>\nIts a mentor and a sage<br \/>\nIts ability to think things through<br \/>\nIs clearly off the page<br \/>\nBut it does have expectations<br \/>\nAnd can see hopelessness<br \/>\nIt anticipates the ugly<br \/>\nAnd feels the unwanted stress<\/p>\n<p>The power of retaliation<br \/>\nIt has and no doubt can<br \/>\nUse it as at SEA WORLD<br \/>\nIt will kill a woman<br \/>\nWhen it is crestfallen<br \/>\nAnd remembers the pain<br \/>\nOf capture and its family slaughtered<br \/>\nAnd the ongoing strain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mammal of distinction With an ancestry of old The largest brain ever To evolve or so I am told It has enormous courage And audacity A fearlessness beyond all fear And wondrous chivalry ITs greatness is unmatched It transcends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-noble-orca\/\">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":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orcas-and-dolphins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26337","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=26337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26341,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26337\/revisions\/26341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}