{"id":40615,"date":"2019-03-28T09:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T09:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=40615"},"modified":"2019-03-28T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:09:45","slug":"%e2%80%9cfreddie%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cmerlin%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/03\/%e2%80%9cfreddie%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cmerlin%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFreddie\u201d and \u201cMerlin\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMares\u201d A sanctuary in Bulawayo<br \/>\nA place for sad donkeys<br \/>\nInjured and sad<br \/>\nIn a country that\u2019s poor<br \/>\nand has thousands of animals<br \/>\nSuffering terribly<br \/>\nClearly the bad<\/p>\n<p>Times bring out evil<br \/>\nAnd hatred and sadness<br \/>\nAnd the donkeys the working souls<br \/>\nSuffer so much<br \/>\nThis sanctuary helps them<br \/>\nIt\u2019s saves them re homes them<br \/>\nAnd does what it can<br \/>\nBy Staying in touch<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreddie\u201d poor soul<br \/>\nWas beaten and chopped<br \/>\nWith a machete<br \/>\nHis head bleeding so<br \/>\nHe was exhausted<br \/>\nFrom working all hours<br \/>\nAnd couldn\u2019t work fast enough<br \/>\nLosing his powers<br \/>\nHis owner frustrated<br \/>\nWith his lot had taken<br \/>\nHis anger out on him<br \/>\nFor many hours<\/p>\n<p>Expecting so much<br \/>\nIn the heat chopping wildly<br \/>\nTerrible head wounds<br \/>\nTo put it mildly<br \/>\nClearly a psychopath<br \/>\nRigorously<br \/>\nCausing such harm<br \/>\nAnd instability<\/p>\n<p>Only a crackpot<br \/>\nCould torture like so<br \/>\nAn hysteric obsessive<br \/>\nAs the blood it did flow<br \/>\nSuffering terribly<br \/>\nFortunately<br \/>\nClaire Einhorn<br \/>\nWas on hand<br \/>\nAnd a rescue could be<\/p>\n<p>Already dear Freddie<br \/>\nIs recovering well<br \/>\nHe has been re homed<br \/>\nSo I have heard tell<br \/>\nHe is a quite a fellow<br \/>\nAs donkeys go<br \/>\nApparently happy<br \/>\nTo be back in the flow<\/p>\n<p>Another called Merlin<br \/>\nFound in the street<br \/>\nAgain worked to death<br \/>\nIn all of the heat<br \/>\nHis tail it was gone<br \/>\nHis skin much gone too<br \/>\nBut they have made him a tail<br \/>\nAnd his magic comes through<br \/>\nLove in Bulawayo<br \/>\nCertainly makes<br \/>\na hell of  difference<br \/>\nFor all donkeys sakes<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the<br \/>\nMARES Donkey Sanctuary<br \/>\nBULAWAYO<br \/>\nZimbabwe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMares\u201d A sanctuary in Bulawayo A place for sad donkeys Injured and sad In a country that\u2019s poor and has thousands of animals Suffering terribly Clearly the bad Times bring out evil And hatred and sadness And the donkeys the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/03\/%e2%80%9cfreddie%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cmerlin%e2%80%9d\/\">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":[344,173,194,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-africa","category-donkeys-and-working-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40615","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=40615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40619,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40615\/revisions\/40619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}