{"id":28598,"date":"2016-07-19T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T05:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=28598"},"modified":"2016-07-19T06:10:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T06:10:26","slug":"that-poor-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/that-poor-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"That poor horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest cowards are the picadors<br \/>\nWho attack on horseback, they<br \/>\nPlunge their swords into the Bull<br \/>\nAnd the horses often pay<br \/>\nClearly it is hazardous and menacing to see<br \/>\nFor the horses are so vulnerable<br \/>\nTo attack and can&#8217;t break free<\/p>\n<p>They really are defenceless<br \/>\nExposed to dreadful horns<br \/>\nTo anger and to ambush<br \/>\nJust Unguarded pawns<br \/>\nThey really do tempt providence<br \/>\nUnshielded and alone<br \/>\nA powder keg that&#8217;s lit and will<br \/>\nExplode as its been shown<\/p>\n<p>This poor horse took its battering<br \/>\nAnd forced the poor soul down<br \/>\nThe picador ran off for sure<br \/>\nAlthough he wore the crown<br \/>\nWe saw he was no hero<br \/>\nAs the horse was taking stick<br \/>\nAs the Bulls horns hit the horses underside<br \/>\nThe picture sick<\/p>\n<p>Being gored repeatedly and bleeding out at will<br \/>\nRuptured by the ugly horns<br \/>\nAnd boring head the spill<br \/>\nOf blood from all directions<br \/>\nThe horse was challenged so<br \/>\nGot up and ran around the ring<br \/>\nAn adrenaline rush on show<\/p>\n<p>Bleeding from every orifice<br \/>\nFrantically in pain<br \/>\nThe agony was obvious<br \/>\nHe would not breathe again<br \/>\nCrashing right into the wall<br \/>\nThat was the last we saw<br \/>\nThe victim laying kicking<br \/>\nHe had been in a war<\/p>\n<p>This is what people pay to see<br \/>\nCruelty like this<br \/>\nThey come in with their ice creams<br \/>\nAnd their trumpets and their bliss<br \/>\nIs evident all seeing the blood lust everywhere<br \/>\nThe Bulls the horses the cowards in flight<br \/>\nThe genuine despair<\/p>\n<p>This film has left me shaking<br \/>\nThis film has left me cold<br \/>\nThe horse had faced a barrage<br \/>\nAnd had been knocked down and rolled<br \/>\nThe bull was on the offensive<br \/>\nAnd brought havoc to the scene<br \/>\nThat horse was murdered terribly<br \/>\nTo the extent it was obscene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest cowards are the picadors Who attack on horseback, they Plunge their swords into the Bull And the horses often pay Clearly it is hazardous and menacing to see For the horses are so vulnerable To attack and can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/that-poor-horse\/\">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":[104,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calves-and-cows-and-bulls","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28598","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=28598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28603,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28598\/revisions\/28603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}