{"id":34768,"date":"2017-11-24T23:43:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T23:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=34768"},"modified":"2017-11-25T10:29:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T10:29:01","slug":"a-turkey-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/11\/a-turkey-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"A turkey portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A living artists palette<br \/>\nIndigo azure<br \/>\nYour coat of many colours<br \/>\nSapphire with a pure<br \/>\nGentian cardinal damask<br \/>\nAshen dapple grey<br \/>\nThe colours only GAIA ever<br \/>\nCould infact display<\/p>\n<p>Cinnabar and madder<br \/>\nA blush a flush a glow<br \/>\nStripes of purest aquamarine<br \/>\nReally in the flow<br \/>\nYour beauty is beyond compare<br \/>\nHow is it we dare say<br \/>\nThat Christmas is a coming<br \/>\nAnd we will eat you right away<\/p>\n<p>The dancing light<br \/>\nThe play on colours<br \/>\nA prism in your eyes<br \/>\nSuch a glorious being<br \/>\nTruthfully defies<br \/>\nLogic defies true art forms<br \/>\nFor looking at you we<br \/>\nCan understand the orbs of magic<br \/>\nThat sometimes follow thee<\/p>\n<p>Out there in the farmyard<br \/>\nWe note the clarity<br \/>\nA turkey such an amazing soul<br \/>\nEye catching wandering free<br \/>\nUndisguised conspicuous<br \/>\nA truly wondrous sight<br \/>\nTo be thrown into the shackles<br \/>\nAnd murdered can&#8217;t be right<\/p>\n<p>A comment from a new friend on facebok<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for sending that poem, Rex. It is wonderful descriptive and really captures the beauty and amazing personalities that turkeys have. I am glad to tell you that the turkey in the photograph is safe at a vegan sanctuary.  Sadly so many will not be as fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>Thankyou Eunice <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A living artists palette Indigo azure Your coat of many colours Sapphire with a pure Gentian cardinal damask Ashen dapple grey The colours only GAIA ever Could infact display Cinnabar and madder A blush a flush a glow Stripes of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/11\/a-turkey-portrait\/\">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":[173,244,231,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-activism-in-art","category-art-work-and-the-animals","category-turkeys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34768","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=34768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34770,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34768\/revisions\/34770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}