{"id":4088,"date":"2012-12-07T19:23:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T19:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2012-12-07T19:31:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T19:31:38","slug":"christmas-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/christmas-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas a time<br \/>\nof wonder and cheer<br \/>\nof murdering gangs<br \/>\nwho display so much fear<br \/>\n10 million Turkeys<br \/>\nYes all that karma<br \/>\nchickens and Capons and Ducks<br \/>\nthe poor farmer<br \/>\nGeese, Partridge, Pheasants<br \/>\nand Guinea Fowl<br \/>\nall with big almond eyes<br \/>\nall who threw in the towel<br \/>\na windowless shed<br \/>\npacked in like sardines<br \/>\ntill their hips did collapse<br \/>\nlike so many machines<br \/>\ntheir eyeballs pecked out<br \/>\nso many have died<br \/>\nnot enough water<br \/>\nsort of crucified<br \/>\nthe madness of Christmas<br \/>\nnobody&#8217;s in doubt<br \/>\nso many are throttled<br \/>\nits one great big rout<br \/>\ndecapitated<br \/>\nso much blood is spilled<br \/>\nplucked and cut open<br \/>\nand bloody well filled<br \/>\nwith force meat and chestnuts<br \/>\nand herbs and white salt<br \/>\nand sugar and suet<br \/>\nno one cries a halt<br \/>\nnot at Christmas<br \/>\nthe pudding the mince pies<br \/>\nthe cream<br \/>\nthe brandy, the port<br \/>\nand no one hears them scream<br \/>\nthe 10 million Turkeys<br \/>\nand the rest of the game<br \/>\nwho lived very short lives<br \/>\nand suffered the same<br \/>\nawful death so that humans<br \/>\ncould chomp on the meat<br \/>\non the blood and the guts<br \/>\nthinking it was a treat<br \/>\nall that terrible karma<br \/>\nwill hang in the air<br \/>\nthe murder gangs<br \/>\nand the all the families who share<br \/>\nall allocated great dollops of grief<br \/>\nwhich is wasted on them<br \/>\nfor with little belief<br \/>\nwhat will come will come later<br \/>\nno one will care<br \/>\nbut by association<br \/>\nwhat comes will be fair <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carnage of Christmas so much death around <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/christmas-carnage\/\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","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=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}