{"id":36982,"date":"2018-06-01T17:42:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=36982"},"modified":"2018-06-02T08:14:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T08:14:43","slug":"anne15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/06\/anne15\/","title":{"rendered":"ANNE15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a kind of promise<br \/>\nAnd honour seemed to me<br \/>\nThe declared intention<br \/>\nAlmost a guarantee<br \/>\nI would have companions<br \/>\nNot nubian goats<br \/>\nBut they<br \/>\nSaid there would  be  elephants<br \/>\nThere to share my day<\/p>\n<p>So to find no other ele&#8217;s<br \/>\nTheir oath apparently<br \/>\nBlown away<br \/>\nLike an Autumn wind<br \/>\nAnd it a liablity<br \/>\nFor me has been so stressful<br \/>\nThe undertaking there<br \/>\nTo have been made<br \/>\nAnd then withdrawn<br \/>\nWhich gave me such despair<\/p>\n<p>Contracts with us animals<br \/>\nAre hearsay thats for sure<br \/>\nIt really got my pecker up<br \/>\nWhich has been down on the floor<br \/>\nSince that became a pipe dream<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ve been left alone<br \/>\nInfringing on my wishes<br \/>\nWell really I was thrown<\/p>\n<p>And there hasnt been a formula<br \/>\nNo balance struck for me<br \/>\nAnd then I heard about elephant haven<br \/>\nWith all its greenery<br \/>\nPart of the Massif Central<br \/>\nA really rural place<br \/>\nFamous for Beef Farming<br \/>\nAnd French Oaks<br \/>\nAt a pace<\/p>\n<p>Slower than at Longleat<br \/>\nCommitted yes to try<br \/>\nTo look after and to love<br \/>\nELephants and why<br \/>\nThose who had suffered circus<br \/>\nThe trauma and the pain<br \/>\nHAute Vienne<br \/>\nA lovely place<br \/>\nKnown as Nouvelle Aquitaine<\/p>\n<p>There are ofcourse excuses<br \/>\nDepriving me of care<br \/>\nI would love to end my days<br \/>\nWalking in that clean sweet air<br \/>\nIf they would only transfer me<br \/>\nAnd let me retire<br \/>\nTo this lovely hamlet<br \/>\nWhere I could regain some fire<\/p>\n<p>I know Sophie and Tony<br \/>\nAre the people there<br \/>\nAnd they know Brigitte Bardot<br \/>\nAnd as people they are fair<br \/>\nIts an inspirational dreamy place<br \/>\nWith ardour by the tonne<br \/>\nI dream about it every night<br \/>\nwhen each day is done<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a kind of promise And honour seemed to me The declared intention Almost a guarantee I would have companions Not nubian goats But they Said there would be elephants There to share my day So to find no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/06\/anne15\/\">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":[344,173,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982","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=36982"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36994,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982\/revisions\/36994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}