{"id":31424,"date":"2016-12-31T16:35:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T16:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=31424"},"modified":"2016-12-31T16:38:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T16:38:48","slug":"thoughts-of-a-tethered-owl-in-a-japanese-retail-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/12\/thoughts-of-a-tethered-owl-in-a-japanese-retail-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts of a tethered owl in a Japanese retail store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking on two legs<br \/>\nWith  two soft downy wings to fly<br \/>\nInto what is freedom<br \/>\nThe vastness of the sky<br \/>\nAt once with a philosophy<br \/>\nA consciousness<br \/>\nA need<br \/>\nUnlike the Japanese retailer<br \/>\nWho just wants to feed<\/p>\n<p>His profit margin with slavery<br \/>\nWith torture and with pain<br \/>\nThe empty headed ignorant<br \/>\nWho tortures so as to gain<br \/>\nA foothold in the emotion<br \/>\nOf his many birds of prey<br \/>\nWhose constant cerebration<br \/>\nIs to really fly away<\/p>\n<p>To have a leg to stand on<br \/>\nAnd leave one leg behind<br \/>\nTethered to the perch<br \/>\nSo the retailer could find<br \/>\nA knee jerk, reaction<br \/>\nTo the evil sophistry<br \/>\nPersuaded just to go for it<br \/>\nDo it implicitly<\/p>\n<p>The agony aforethought<br \/>\nThe blood loss one could be<br \/>\nHow far can a baby fly<br \/>\nIts an absurdity<br \/>\nThere was no expectation<br \/>\nThe probability<br \/>\nWas who ever bought the owl<br \/>\nWould take it home for tea<\/p>\n<p>Between a rock and a hard place<br \/>\nNot the ideal place to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking on two legs With two soft downy wings to fly Into what is freedom The vastness of the sky At once with a philosophy A consciousness A need Unlike the Japanese retailer Who just wants to feed His profit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/12\/thoughts-of-a-tethered-owl-in-a-japanese-retail-store\/\">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":[200,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft","category-wild-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31424","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=31424"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31430,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31424\/revisions\/31430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}