{"id":28567,"date":"2016-07-15T13:15:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T13:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=28567"},"modified":"2016-07-15T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T13:18:12","slug":"telmatoblus-culeus-a-rarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/telmatoblus-culeus-a-rarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Telmatoblus Culeus. A rarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aquatic and endangered<br \/>\nA rather lonely soul<br \/>\nWho lives in Titicaca Lake<br \/>\nAnd apparently it&#8217;s role<br \/>\nIs to live and be a Peruvian<br \/>\nTHough it&#8217;s pressure every hour<br \/>\nEverybody is after them<br \/>\nAnd the reason now<br \/>\nIs down to human beings<br \/>\nAs medicine we hear<br \/>\nTheY use their skin for leather<br \/>\nAnd the poor frogs live in fear<\/p>\n<p>They make a flour and  cream<br \/>\nI am told<br \/>\nAnd they eat the poor soul too<br \/>\nJuice him for a tonic<br \/>\nI know that doesn&#8217;t sound true<br \/>\nIN the US there are people<br \/>\nWho see them as a way<br \/>\nA sort of aphrodisiac<br \/>\nAnd for that some nuts will pay<\/p>\n<p>A fortune this poor animAl<br \/>\nAttracts the low life males<br \/>\nWhich is why it&#8217;s really struggling<br \/>\nImagine the sad tales<br \/>\nCirculating all about<br \/>\nAnd now we hear the trout<br \/>\nThey have introduced into the pond<br \/>\nAre now eating the tadpoles<br \/>\nYes that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s about<\/p>\n<p>Humans are a pain in life<br \/>\nNothing stands to be<br \/>\nEnjoying freedom no matter where<br \/>\nThere is no decency<br \/>\nEvery soul is fighting to stay<br \/>\nAlive today<br \/>\nEven this wonderful water frog<br \/>\nWho is being made to pay<\/p>\n<p>For all these soppy cultures<br \/>\nAnd for leather products too<br \/>\nHuman beings do not think<br \/>\nWhat killing them does do<br \/>\nAs they become endangered<br \/>\nSo some will pay a lot<br \/>\nAnd others will go hunting<br \/>\nAnd kill them on the spot<\/p>\n<p>We are all a bunch of losers<br \/>\nMaking them suffer so<br \/>\nThey are only found in this lake<br \/>\nAs most people now know<br \/>\nSo where is their compassion<br \/>\ntheir in born empathy<br \/>\nWhy do they keep capturing them<br \/>\nWith such frequency<\/p>\n<p>The selfishness and ignorance<br \/>\nHas gone beyond belief<br \/>\nThere is no continuity<br \/>\nAnd thus a lot of grief<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s incongruous behaviour<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s out of step with time<br \/>\nAnd if they leave this planet<br \/>\nLet those wasters feel their slime<\/p>\n<p>Rising over their sick heads<br \/>\nDrowning them out too<br \/>\nFor what they have done to a precious soul<br \/>\nIs now coming true<br \/>\nThey are being drowned out<br \/>\nLose their life as well<br \/>\nBeing sucked into a spout<br \/>\nAnd pushed up into HELL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aquatic and endangered A rather lonely soul Who lives in Titicaca Lake And apparently it&#8217;s role Is to live and be a Peruvian THough it&#8217;s pressure every hour Everybody is after them And the reason now Is down to human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/telmatoblus-culeus-a-rarity\/\">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":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amphibians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28567","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=28567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28569,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28567\/revisions\/28569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}