{"id":34045,"date":"2017-09-24T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T15:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=34045"},"modified":"2017-09-25T12:26:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T12:26:05","slug":"the-fisherman-of-taiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/09\/the-fisherman-of-taiji\/","title":{"rendered":"The fisherman of Taiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aggressive on the outside<br \/>\nRobotic in a way<br \/>\nOpenly in defiance with cove guardians<br \/>\ni&#8217;d say<br \/>\nWith an air of superiority<br \/>\nOf potency and power<br \/>\nDistracted by reactions<br \/>\nAnd really wondering how<br \/>\nTheir roughness and their strong arm tactics<br \/>\nAnd ferocity<br \/>\nReally help them put across<br \/>\nTheir base sobriety<\/p>\n<p>Hunting and blood shedding<br \/>\nA bloodbath every time<br \/>\nTaiji&#8217;s cove and tarpaulins<br \/>\nThe gladatorial climb<br \/>\nThe combat of the masses<br \/>\nThe shambles that we see<br \/>\nMass murder on a massive scale<br \/>\nThe victims of the sea<\/p>\n<p>All life is so sacred<br \/>\nBut not so at taiji<br \/>\nInsentient the lot of them<br \/>\nOblivious they be<br \/>\nThick skinned stony automatons<br \/>\nNumb to what we see<br \/>\nImperceptive and unaware<br \/>\nOf how it ought to be<\/p>\n<p>They get off on the physical pain<br \/>\nEach twinge each pinch each pang<br \/>\nHarrowing tormenting, and just as they hang<br \/>\nMothers and their babies up to cut them into two<br \/>\nThere are no tears we ever see<br \/>\nIts not what these folk do<\/p>\n<p>There appears no curiosity<br \/>\nNot an enquiring mind<br \/>\nOfficious and apathetic<br \/>\nThey seem not to unwind<br \/>\nReady to punch your lights out<br \/>\nAnd threaten right away<br \/>\nAlways in opposition<br \/>\nNo matter what we say<\/p>\n<p>Its killing and its training<br \/>\nThats the order of the day<br \/>\nThe bangers boats<br \/>\nWithin the floats<br \/>\nPushed into the bay<br \/>\nUnder the tarps the victims fall<br \/>\nChopped up lost for sure<br \/>\nSwimming in the blood of friends<br \/>\nAnd ofcourse their gore<\/p>\n<p>Screwballs if you ask me<br \/>\nNutjobs most would seem<br \/>\nSociopaths and oddballs<br \/>\nCertainly not the cream<br \/>\nOf japanese society<br \/>\nYet they have quite some power<br \/>\nDefective though in many ways<br \/>\nOne must question how<\/p>\n<p>Taiji remains active<br \/>\nIn the killing sphere<br \/>\nMurdering the bottlenose and others year on year<br \/>\nThe meat is just disgusting and fewer eat it, they<br \/>\nApparently put culture first<br \/>\nAnd tradition so they say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aggressive on the outside Robotic in a way Openly in defiance with cove guardians i&#8217;d say With an air of superiority Of potency and power Distracted by reactions And really wondering how Their roughness and their strong arm tactics And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/09\/the-fisherman-of-taiji\/\">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":[173,102,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-orcas-and-dolphins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34045","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=34045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34056,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34045\/revisions\/34056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}