{"id":32384,"date":"2017-03-08T19:26:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T19:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=32384"},"modified":"2017-03-10T20:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T20:44:35","slug":"tragedy-on-the-cassia-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/03\/tragedy-on-the-cassia-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy on the Cassia Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cassia ROad outside the mushroom farm<br \/>\nAnd what we found<br \/>\nWas a mother and her baby<br \/>\nLying on the ground<br \/>\nBoth were badly injured<br \/>\nThe baby gravely so<br \/>\nThe mother was lying on the bank<br \/>\nWhere the thick lantana grow<\/p>\n<p>This is a busy interchange<br \/>\nAnd its heavy traffic there<br \/>\nClearly her baby was in the road<br \/>\nAnd the mother so aware<br \/>\nShe had to try to save it<br \/>\nThough in shock and awe she be<br \/>\nThreading through the traffic<br \/>\nAnd ber baby she could see<\/p>\n<p>Clearly the mite was dying<br \/>\nAnd she had been hit too<br \/>\nSuffering such agony<br \/>\nAnd was weakened Through and through<br \/>\nBloodied up and broken<br \/>\nClearly in harms way<br \/>\nBoth were in a sorry state<br \/>\nBoth had been made to pay<\/p>\n<p>Drivers look at wild ones<br \/>\nAs a menace sometimes they<br \/>\nDont feel the angst the mother feels<br \/>\nIts galling in a way<br \/>\nThey just should not be on the road<br \/>\nBut then monkeys have always been<br \/>\nWild there it is woeful<br \/>\nTo observe this awful scene<\/p>\n<p>We caught up with the mother<br \/>\nHad placed her baby near<br \/>\nShe clutched at it in earnest<br \/>\nAnd held her baby dear<br \/>\nCuddling it and carressing it<br \/>\nOur Heartstrings tightened as we<br \/>\nFelt that anguish and disquiet<br \/>\nErupt depressingly<\/p>\n<p>They both had become victims<br \/>\nTheir agony we shared<br \/>\nCrossing the road was impossible<br \/>\nBoth were clearly scared<br \/>\nThe traffic there so heavy<br \/>\nAn Awful way to go<br \/>\nSo Unbearable to realise<br \/>\nThis pathetic tale of woe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cassia ROad outside the mushroom farm And what we found Was a mother and her baby Lying on the ground Both were badly injured The baby gravely so The mother was lying on the bank Where the thick lantana &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/03\/tragedy-on-the-cassia-road\/\">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":[173,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-monkeys-and-primates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32384","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=32384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32402,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32384\/revisions\/32402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}