{"id":39298,"date":"2018-10-18T17:14:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T17:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=39298"},"modified":"2018-10-18T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T17:16:43","slug":"scottish-wool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/10\/scottish-wool\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Wool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The agony of shearing<br \/>\nComes home to sheep alas<br \/>\nPiece working wages<br \/>\nFrustrated rages<br \/>\nTorture yes enmasse<\/p>\n<p>Scotland land of haggis<br \/>\nOf whisky by the dram<br \/>\nTbis is how you shear<br \/>\nThe sheep<br \/>\nFor wool and how you ram<\/p>\n<p>Your feet down on their bodies<br \/>\nYour punches in their face<br \/>\nAfflicted by the scourges<br \/>\nOf the rotten human race<\/p>\n<p>No guarantee of empathy<br \/>\nFor those sheep that are sick<br \/>\nMastitis and foot wounding<br \/>\nYou never miss a trick<\/p>\n<p>Pound them with your elbows<br \/>\nBash them with your heel<br \/>\nPunch them in Between the eyes<br \/>\nBash them up for real<\/p>\n<p>Their wool you want<br \/>\nand are paid for<br \/>\nIts a minefield for their souls<br \/>\nUnskilful at the shearing<br \/>\nAnd all without controls<\/p>\n<p>Great wounds appear<br \/>\nAnd then are stitched<br \/>\nThe same rough hand hand we saw<br \/>\nCarry out the injury in the first place<br \/>\nThen ignore<\/p>\n<p>The bleating of the animals<br \/>\nNot a shred of soul<br \/>\nKick them when they are lying down<br \/>\nWool sales such a toll<\/p>\n<p>In sales I hope for Scottish wool<br \/>\nIs bloody all the way<br \/>\nTorture excesive spivvery<br \/>\nAnd this is every day<\/p>\n<p>Its hostile its just an Attack<br \/>\nCombativeness we see<br \/>\nThis is grievous bodily harm<br \/>\nTheir freedom needs to be<\/p>\n<p>Checked they need a prison cell<br \/>\nTo gloat over the pain<br \/>\nThey gave out to those innocent sheep<br \/>\nTime and time again<\/p>\n<p>Scottish wool be ashamed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agony of shearing Comes home to sheep alas Piece working wages Frustrated rages Torture yes enmasse Scotland land of haggis Of whisky by the dram Tbis is how you shear The sheep For wool and how you ram Your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/10\/scottish-wool\/\">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":[344,173,145,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-lambs-and-sheep","category-wool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39298","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=39298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39300,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39298\/revisions\/39300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}