{"id":37651,"date":"2018-08-06T08:51:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T08:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37651"},"modified":"2018-08-06T08:54:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T08:54:54","slug":"iceland-66-and-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/08\/iceland-66-and-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland 66 and 67"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no remorse or compunction<br \/>\nNor commiseration they<br \/>\nWere yesterday creations gift<br \/>\nAnd sadly the dismay<br \/>\nMost feel at now seeing<br \/>\nOn the roof of this whale shed<br \/>\nIceland gave permission<br \/>\nAnd all these whales are dead<\/p>\n<p>Sixty six and sixty seven<br \/>\nAnd 191 is to be<br \/>\nThe total figure on the license<br \/>\nAll of them were swimming free<br \/>\nFor iceland to give permit<br \/>\nTo a madman millionaire<br \/>\nWho is bringing the country into disrepute<br \/>\nAnd you are so unaware<\/p>\n<p>These are beautiful fin whales<br \/>\nEndangered and they need<br \/>\nProtection not annhilation<br \/>\nFor Iceland to succeed<br \/>\nIn whale watching and killing<br \/>\nAnd the tourists who<br \/>\nCome and share their wisdom<br \/>\nAnd their money it is true<\/p>\n<p>Most feel put out when they realise<br \/>\nYou are murdering them so you<br \/>\nCan make a lot of money<br \/>\nAt watching snd killing<br \/>\nYou do<\/p>\n<p>Sink into the ocean<br \/>\nYour morality<br \/>\nAnd Your absolute lack of pity<br \/>\nInexorability<\/p>\n<p>Where is the appreciation<br \/>\nThe recognition here<br \/>\nYou ought to all  be thankful<br \/>\nThat these whales are swimming near<\/p>\n<p>But instead of that you  are harpooning them<br \/>\nAnd dragging them back to port<br \/>\nTurning them into carnage<br \/>\nFor the whalers it is sport<\/p>\n<p>It is wrongness on a scale<br \/>\nBeyond belief its a disgrace<br \/>\nTransgression the procession<br \/>\nOf dead souls that we face<\/p>\n<p>Its clearly unjustifiable<br \/>\nIts vulgar and its wrong<br \/>\nIts disrespecting nature<br \/>\nAnd the whole cetacean throng<\/p>\n<p>Its thanklessness personified<br \/>\nUnmindful that it be<br \/>\nThese whales do you no harm at all<br \/>\nBut you pull them from the sea<\/p>\n<p>You carve them up<br \/>\nAnd disrespect their gods<br \/>\nWho did create<br \/>\nThem to be watched not murdered<br \/>\nAnd I am saddened at your  fate<\/p>\n<p>This millionaire needs stopping<br \/>\nIts not funny anymore<br \/>\nIts his personal vendetta<br \/>\nAgainst the natural law<\/p>\n<p>Of life, and all its meaning<br \/>\nSuch profundity and more<br \/>\nWe have to save these beautiful souls<br \/>\nThat so many of us adore<\/p>\n<p>Dont sink to the low level of Japan<br \/>\nYou are so much better than them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no remorse or compunction Nor commiseration they Were yesterday creations gift And sadly the dismay Most feel at now seeing On the roof of this whale shed Iceland gave permission And all these whales are dead Sixty six &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/08\/iceland-66-and-67\/\">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":[344,173,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-whales-and-sea-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37651","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=37651"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37655,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37651\/revisions\/37655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}