{"id":28197,"date":"2016-06-04T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=28197"},"modified":"2016-06-04T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T21:29:34","slug":"whale-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/whale-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The medium blue from the light<br \/>\nAnd the sky<br \/>\nThe depths where the great whales<br \/>\nCome up and fly<br \/>\nBarnacled beasts with their so<br \/>\nMassive size<br \/>\nWho explode at the surface<br \/>\nTo then realise<\/p>\n<p>Their worth for this earth<br \/>\nTheir soul to control<br \/>\nTheir heart does impart<br \/>\nA vastness of role<br \/>\nAn explosion of bubbles<br \/>\nWith the thrill to descend<br \/>\nAs the man with his harpoon<br \/>\nWill try and defend<\/p>\n<p>Theres the Japanese whalers<br \/>\nUnder the flag<br \/>\nOf science<br \/>\nNorwegians somehow they lag<br \/>\nBehind in the great race<br \/>\nThe Icelanders too<br \/>\nAll killing us whales<br \/>\nFor  the Japanese who<\/p>\n<p>Consume us our flesh and our blubber<br \/>\nIntact<br \/>\nMercury radiation<br \/>\nPCB&#8217;s fact<\/p>\n<p>Its in their cells<br \/>\nIn their blood in their gore<br \/>\nWe are the reason<br \/>\nThey come for us more<\/p>\n<p>The medium blue from the light<br \/>\nAnd the sky<br \/>\nBehold our great tails<br \/>\nWatch and see us come by<br \/>\nLook into our eyes<br \/>\nAnd what do you see<br \/>\nThe greatest of brain<br \/>\nLooking straight back at thee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The medium blue from the light And the sky The depths where the great whales Come up and fly Barnacled beasts with their so Massive size Who explode at the surface To then realise Their worth for this earth Their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/whale-watching\/\">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":[112,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orcas-and-dolphins","category-whales-and-sea-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28197","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=28197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28199,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28197\/revisions\/28199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}