{"id":26453,"date":"2016-02-21T19:53:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T19:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26453"},"modified":"2016-02-21T19:55:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T19:55:37","slug":"anne-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/anne-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wind is angry<br \/>\nI can hear its mighty thrust outside<br \/>\nThe absurdity of loneliness<br \/>\nWhich I had so relied<br \/>\nOn humans coming forward<br \/>\nTo help me in my plight<br \/>\nTo just escape the evil<br \/>\nAnd find some bright white light<\/p>\n<p>My memories of cruelty<br \/>\nWere in my mind that day<br \/>\nWhen I was supposedly rescued<br \/>\nAnd taken so they say<br \/>\nTo LONGLEAT my new heaven<br \/>\nWhere others I would meet<br \/>\nMy naivete apparent<br \/>\nI was joining the elite<\/p>\n<p>My heart was all a flutter<br \/>\nIf my youth had been misspent<br \/>\nMy new life would be joyful<br \/>\nAnd full of true content<br \/>\nSomewhere just to romp and play<br \/>\nAnd find some friendship along the way<br \/>\nThe evidence of certainty<br \/>\nA path of light would forever be<\/p>\n<p>The Rhino Hall was smelly<br \/>\nAnd so frightening at night<br \/>\nAll sorts of shadows came at me<br \/>\nFrom a peculiar height<br \/>\nSo another milestone<br \/>\nin the workings of my mind<br \/>\nTo meet some other elephants<br \/>\nand gradually unwind<\/p>\n<p>A dose of camaraderie<br \/>\nPerhaps a confidant<br \/>\nSomeone I could mentor<br \/>\nAnother elephant<br \/>\nBut enmity apparent<br \/>\nAntagonism too<br \/>\nIll feeling if I am honest<br \/>\nAnd a bull hook or two<\/p>\n<p>A deal of irasability<br \/>\nAnd grumpiness I felt<br \/>\nSullen and forbidding<br \/>\nAll the cards they dealt<br \/>\nI had hoped it would be different<br \/>\nAnd blessed I would be<br \/>\nEnlightened even<br \/>\nBut it appears<br \/>\nThat all that,  is not for me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wind is angry I can hear its mighty thrust outside The absurdity of loneliness Which I had so relied On humans coming forward To help me in my plight To just escape the evil And find some bright white &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/anne-4\/\">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-26453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26453","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=26453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26455,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26453\/revisions\/26455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}