{"id":39760,"date":"2018-12-25T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T13:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=39760"},"modified":"2018-12-25T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T13:32:02","slug":"the-renegade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-renegade\/","title":{"rendered":"A Renegade on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the  time some of you read this<br \/>\nMany of my friends<br \/>\nWill have been sadly eaten<br \/>\nThe message that that sends<br \/>\nIs one of absolute misery<br \/>\nFor I too might have been<br \/>\nJointed and Annointed<br \/>\nIt so gets me in the spleen!<\/p>\n<p>Infact i had my ears tagged<br \/>\nThey&#8217;d  painted to confirm<br \/>\nI was going to get the chop<br \/>\nTo feel the yuletide squirm<br \/>\nCattle trucks to slaughter<br \/>\nHung up and away<br \/>\nBled out like the next one<br \/>\nOn this great Christmas Day<\/p>\n<p>But I was far from ready<br \/>\nMy heart was filled with pain<br \/>\nTo go to meet the supermarket call off<br \/>\nNot again<br \/>\nMy life was one great miracle<br \/>\nLife for me was good<br \/>\nWhy did I have to die tHat day<br \/>\nBecause they deemed I should<\/p>\n<p>So I got myself close to the front<br \/>\nAnd when they  opened the doors<br \/>\nI leapt into the spirit<br \/>\nAgain without applause<br \/>\nI ran like hell<br \/>\nI did not look back<br \/>\nDespite their evil plea&#8217;s<br \/>\nI just ran like the clappers<br \/>\nRight into the trees<\/p>\n<p>And I just kept on running<br \/>\nRunning for all my worth<br \/>\nI could feel the roots and thistles<br \/>\nGrowing out of the earth<br \/>\nI could hear my  heart a beating<br \/>\nLike a massive drum<br \/>\nTo the music of true freedom<br \/>\nHelping  me to see<br \/>\nI wouldn&#8217;t be a carcass<br \/>\nI would so be free<\/p>\n<p>And entering the forest<br \/>\nThe darklands I was sure<br \/>\nAll my friends had already died<br \/>\nHow can one ignore<br \/>\nThat truth that evil reckoning<br \/>\nInside of me I knew<br \/>\nThey were in somebodys<br \/>\nGuts<br \/>\nAnd thats not a pleasant view<\/p>\n<p>For me it became apparent<br \/>\nI was all alone<br \/>\nA cow had run her srse off<br \/>\nA new seed though was sown<br \/>\nA new life in the forest<br \/>\nBeckoned and surely<br \/>\nI could be a wild cow<br \/>\nRoaming ever free<\/p>\n<p>As it transpired<br \/>\nI was taken in<br \/>\nBy  red deer<br \/>\nWith acclaim<br \/>\nTreated like a hero<br \/>\nThey called me that by name<br \/>\nAnd for years we strolled<br \/>\nThe meadows hidden from the eyes<br \/>\nOf the hunting fraternity<br \/>\nAnd their vacant lies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time some of you read this Many of my friends Will have been sadly eaten The message that that sends Is one of absolute misery For I too might have been Jointed and Annointed It so gets me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-renegade\/\">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":[344,173,128,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-cafos-and-factory-farms","category-calves-and-cows-and-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39760","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=39760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39762,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39760\/revisions\/39762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}