{"id":40847,"date":"2019-04-06T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T11:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=40847"},"modified":"2019-04-06T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T11:30:45","slug":"donkey-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/donkey-rides\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We call them working animals<br \/>\nIts suits us<br \/>\nBut they are equine wonders<br \/>\nAnd for me<br \/>\nDonkeys are<br \/>\nGentle perhaps and just too amenable<br \/>\nThey be<br \/>\nBelieving and persuadable<br \/>\nA little bit naive<br \/>\nTrusting and confiding<br \/>\nAnd thats why they achieve<br \/>\nPerhaps too much attention<br \/>\nFrom the lazy threatening mob<br \/>\nWho work them much too easily<br \/>\nBy just raising their gob<\/p>\n<p>In greece to see the artifacts<br \/>\nA winding road maybe<br \/>\nAnd instead of tourists walking in the sun<br \/>\nThey ride for free<br \/>\nTesting little donkeys<br \/>\nWith their corpulence abroad<br \/>\nTheir chubbiness their stoutness<br \/>\nWhich no one can afford<br \/>\nMaking the donkeys suffer<br \/>\nMaking them undergo<br \/>\nStress and strain and rotten pain<br \/>\nThe tourists puff and  blow<br \/>\nShowing their unrefinement<br \/>\nTheir shameless loutish streak<br \/>\nInsensitive abusers<br \/>\nWhat is it that they seek<\/p>\n<p>A modicum of thoughtfulness<br \/>\nThey will not get it here<br \/>\nWhy not walk up the road using their legs<br \/>\nIt seems so clear<br \/>\nIts not their rotund bodies<br \/>\nIts just their sophistry<br \/>\nAnd why donkeys have to suffer<br \/>\nFeels very sad to me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We call them working animals Its suits us But they are equine wonders And for me Donkeys are Gentle perhaps and just too amenable They be Believing and persuadable A little bit naive Trusting and confiding And thats why they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/donkey-rides\/\">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":[344,173,147,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animals-used-for-food","category-donkeys-and-working-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40847","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=40847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40851,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40847\/revisions\/40851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}