{"id":2965,"date":"2012-09-06T11:42:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T11:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2013-03-22T17:09:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T17:09:02","slug":"elephant-orphans-the-ivory-chinas-incessant-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/elephant-orphans-the-ivory-chinas-incessant-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Orphans  The IVORY  China&#8217;s incessant need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa awakens<br \/>\nfrom its mystique that was night<br \/>\nA green dawn follows hastily<br \/>\nbehold the sun so bright<br \/>\ncreates such jasper spirit<br \/>\npersuasive to the gaze<br \/>\nA mother killed by poachers<br \/>\nFalls down in a blaze<br \/>\nOf glory tinged with carnage<br \/>\nA great parade of spears<br \/>\nThat draw her life&#8217;s blood<br \/>\nfrom her<br \/>\nThat she&#8217;s built up for years<br \/>\nAll that vast nutrition<br \/>\nall those careful hours<br \/>\nHer baby left to perish<br \/>\namongst the forests flowers<\/p>\n<p>Ivory is still sought by some markets<br \/>\nTraders using sick excuses they<br \/>\nMake, it is old ivory yes thats a likely story<br \/>\nThe suffering, the agony they pay<br \/>\nlip service they just haven&#8217;t got a conscience<br \/>\nOr it doesn&#8217;t kick in that alas is true<br \/>\nThey do their damndest dirty in the wild parks now of Africa<br \/>\nAnd slink away out of peoples view<\/p>\n<p>The baby is to be the other victim<br \/>\nleft to wander aimlessly and die<br \/>\nImagine what its like to be a baby<br \/>\nParted from its mother with the sky<br \/>\nUp above prepared to colour crimson<br \/>\nand throw great bolts of lightening<br \/>\nabout<\/p>\n<p>China you can do something about this<br \/>\nStop the vile and rotten trade right now<br \/>\nPoachers paid by your lot are now carrying<br \/>\nout<br \/>\nSlaughters on an awful scale and How<br \/>\nThis is such a waste of handsome creatures<br \/>\nKill this market now you have to power<br \/>\nChina I now beg you please do something<br \/>\nReally they have reached their final hour  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China you must please stop this trade put an end to this please <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/elephant-orphans-the-ivory-chinas-incessant-need\/\">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-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","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=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6924,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}