{"id":26706,"date":"2016-03-08T21:25:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26706"},"modified":"2016-03-08T21:25:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:25:33","slug":"tilikum-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/03\/tilikum-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilikum 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course I am bloody well dying<br \/>\nWhat would you all now expect<br \/>\nThe drama is playing out now in my soul<br \/>\nAnd at last the Sea WORLD team detect<br \/>\nThat I am increasingly willing<br \/>\nTo stop breathing their fetid air<br \/>\nMy resolution is the solution<br \/>\nAnd they sadly are not aware<\/p>\n<p>Of how much I have pined for my freedom<br \/>\nI am so indisposed lying here<br \/>\nIn this vile tank of blue water<br \/>\nA soup of my discharges, and fear<br \/>\nIt fills up my whole being these days<br \/>\nI need the great depths of the sea<br \/>\nTo dive in not this little tank where I am at<br \/>\nIts just somewhere I shouldn&#8217;t be<\/p>\n<p>Those obstinate jailers are at me<br \/>\nDoing their tricks every day<br \/>\nMy brain wasn&#8217;t meant for such idiot stuff<br \/>\nWhy cant I just swim away<br \/>\nI am an innocent soul from the ocean<br \/>\nI should be given a choice<br \/>\nInstead I am stuck here<br \/>\nJust a bloody slave<br \/>\nThey think that I don&#8217;t have a voice<\/p>\n<p>Essentially I am a Nothing<br \/>\nMy health means nothing okay<br \/>\nI swim in a filthy environment<br \/>\nAnd so with my pure health I pay<br \/>\nBacteria you bet it likes me<br \/>\nFor I am depressed as can be<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to live on this earth any more<br \/>\nI want to go back to the sea<\/p>\n<p>Please will you hear me and do something now<br \/>\nForce those bastards to let me go<br \/>\nI cant stand the music the splashing behaviour<br \/>\nThe screaming morons you know<br \/>\nI am a being all seeing all thinking<br \/>\nI need so much more<br \/>\nI am down trodden being neglected<br \/>\nAnd all of my muscles feel sore<\/p>\n<p>I regret I was ever born honestly<br \/>\nThis isn&#8217;t life this is death<br \/>\nMy spirits are low I just want to go<br \/>\nIts easy I will give back your breath<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want it filling my lungs anymore<br \/>\nIts much better that I just die<br \/>\nthen comes the inquest and Sea Worlds excuses<br \/>\nLet me in heaven now lie<\/p>\n<p>Rest from this ugly old life I have seen<br \/>\nThe beautiful ocean where I might have been<br \/>\nWith every life force and abundance as well<br \/>\nInstead I was left in Sea Worlds vile hell<br \/>\nI know that you fought for me protestors you<br \/>\nStood by the roadside did what you could do<br \/>\nBut these corporations are heartless and strong<br \/>\nThey get away with doing things wrong<br \/>\nCorruption is commonplace that much I know<br \/>\nAll I ask is remember me <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course I am bloody well dying What would you all now expect The drama is playing out now in my soul And at last the Sea WORLD team detect That I am increasingly willing To stop breathing their fetid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/03\/tilikum-3\/\">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-26706","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\/26706","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=26706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26707,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26706\/revisions\/26707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}