{"id":38408,"date":"2018-09-10T13:47:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=38408"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:09:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:09:10","slug":"captivity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/captivity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Captivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You came from the ocean<br \/>\nAnd where are you now<br \/>\nIn a tank made of concrete<br \/>\nBut tell me how<br \/>\nCan you live in an enclosure<br \/>\nWith no life around<br \/>\nJust the strong smell of chlorine<br \/>\nAnd the audience sound<\/p>\n<p>Life it was everywhere<br \/>\nThat energy<br \/>\nWonderment honestly<br \/>\nJust being free<br \/>\nTo roam where I wanted<br \/>\nTo feed anytime<br \/>\nTo sample the sea weed<br \/>\nTo dive and to climb<\/p>\n<p>Now its a tank<br \/>\nNothing living at all<br \/>\nNo shells and no fishes<br \/>\nNo aquatic call<br \/>\nThe sounds of the ocean<br \/>\nThe wind From above<br \/>\nBeing with my mother<br \/>\nWho showed me her love<\/p>\n<p>No one to talk to<br \/>\nJust the morons who throw<br \/>\nThe dead fish still iced up<br \/>\nWho dont want to know<br \/>\nI swim in a poo tank<br \/>\nNo where else to go<br \/>\nRound and round its so boring<br \/>\nIts like a yo yo<\/p>\n<p>I want to get out of this alien place<br \/>\nNo one  to fight with<br \/>\nNo one to chase<br \/>\nNo bubbles to blow<br \/>\nNothing to see<br \/>\nBut four walls and chipped paintwork<br \/>\nThats where I be<\/p>\n<p>And the loud speakers<br \/>\nThat music they play<br \/>\nIt buggers my sonar up<br \/>\nThere is no way<br \/>\nI can stay in this tank<br \/>\nThat why  I leapt<br \/>\nOver the wall<br \/>\nI was feeling adept<\/p>\n<p>The thud on the floor<br \/>\nIt was such a shock<br \/>\nMy whole body ached<br \/>\nAnd those cretins that flock<br \/>\nAround they are aliens<br \/>\nHumans oh no<br \/>\nMoronic shape shifters<br \/>\nThey are psycho<\/p>\n<p>How is it deemed fair<br \/>\nThis captivity<br \/>\nFor a dolphin that swims<br \/>\nVery far out to sea<br \/>\nDown to the bottom and back up<br \/>\nTo the sky<br \/>\nChasing the boats<br \/>\nAnd Wondering why<br \/>\nHere in this bath tub<br \/>\nI must get away<br \/>\nGo down to the bottom<br \/>\nAnd make myself stay<\/p>\n<p>It is the best<br \/>\nSea world for me<br \/>\nIs bloody great corporate<br \/>\nWhose insanity<br \/>\nProvides for these nincompoop people<br \/>\nWho be<\/p>\n<p>Buying their tickets<br \/>\nEating their sweets<br \/>\nThe smell of their burgers<br \/>\nReally defeats<br \/>\nAll of the oxygen That does abound<br \/>\nAnd the perfume soaked girls<br \/>\nWho Just stand around<\/p>\n<p>Thats why I leapt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You came from the ocean And where are you now In a tank made of concrete But tell me how Can you live in an enclosure With no life around Just the strong smell of chlorine And the audience sound &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/captivity-2\/\">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":[344,173,340,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-captivity","category-orcas-and-dolphins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38408","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=38408"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38415,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38408\/revisions\/38415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}