{"id":28189,"date":"2016-06-04T17:55:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T17:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=28189"},"modified":"2016-06-04T18:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T18:02:36","slug":"guruvayer-temple-and-its-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/guruvayer-temple-and-its-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"GURUVAYER temple and its elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its appears situations have come to a head<br \/>\nElephants seemingly ended up dead<br \/>\nTortured and left in a most parlous state<br \/>\nLiving in conditions worsening of late<br \/>\nSome with broken limbs then chained<br \/>\nBadly and<br \/>\nLeft in their own mess<br \/>\nTo now understand<br \/>\nWhy these great beasts would be kept in his way<br \/>\nIn a temple of all places its hard to say<\/p>\n<p>The Hindu reported 4 years ago<br \/>\nThat one &#8220;ADITYAN&#8221; never on show<br \/>\nBut deliberately injured and chained in the dark<br \/>\nMany disabled and left to park<br \/>\nIn the sun and in the rain<br \/>\nIn their droppings as well<br \/>\nA temple allowing their home to be Hell<\/p>\n<p>5000 years old this temple stands proud<br \/>\nCruelty isn&#8217;t the kind of shroud<br \/>\nTo be left now hanging over this place<br \/>\nWith elephants tortured its such a disgrace<br \/>\nA place of great strictness to Krishna most high<br \/>\nClearly there are problems here<br \/>\nBut so why<br \/>\nAre elephants openly given such pain<br \/>\nWhy the denials what<br \/>\nIs there to gain<\/p>\n<p>A petition is circulating at this time<br \/>\nNo smoke without fire<br \/>\nLiving In their own slime<br \/>\nThese poor beasts are suffering<br \/>\nAnd needs now must be<br \/>\nThat someone goes in there<br \/>\nTo check them and to free<\/p>\n<p>Them if they are chained up<br \/>\nAnd suffering so<br \/>\nThese temples are not above laws<br \/>\nBut we know<br \/>\nReligion takes over Kerala though<br \/>\nMust investigate this one<br \/>\nSomeone must go<\/p>\n<p>Into this temple and investigate<br \/>\nFor something is wrong there<br \/>\nAnd so we must wait<\/p>\n<p>Sign the petitions write where we can<br \/>\nGet everything moving<br \/>\nThats now the plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its appears situations have come to a head Elephants seemingly ended up dead Tortured and left in a most parlous state Living in conditions worsening of late Some with broken limbs then chained Badly and Left in their own mess &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/guruvayer-temple-and-its-elephants\/\">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-28189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28189","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=28189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28191,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28189\/revisions\/28191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}