{"id":41045,"date":"2019-04-21T18:01:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T18:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=41045"},"modified":"2019-04-21T18:07:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T18:07:39","slug":"camel-rides-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/camel-rides-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Camel rides in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism seems to  bring out<br \/>\nThe worst in many a soul<br \/>\nIn Egypt what the handlers do<br \/>\nProve they have lost control<br \/>\nTheir unruliness is awful<br \/>\nTheir savage brutal ways<br \/>\nExtra heavy handed<br \/>\nImagining it pays<\/p>\n<p>Camels those great desert<br \/>\nAngels<br \/>\nWho traverse far and wide<br \/>\nTake the sand and bear the heat<br \/>\nAnd oft provide a ride<br \/>\nWho often feel vulgarity<br \/>\nAnd naivete as well<br \/>\nTactless obtuse handlers<br \/>\nMost were trained in Hell<\/p>\n<p>They are whipped<br \/>\nAnd often beaten<br \/>\nAround their testicles  we hear<br \/>\nOften foaming at the mouth<br \/>\nBleeding from to ear<br \/>\nSuffering terrible abuse<br \/>\nJust so tourists can<br \/>\nRide past the famous pyramids<br \/>\nMaking selfies man to man<\/p>\n<p>Parochial decisions<br \/>\nThey have a one tracked mind<br \/>\nThinking about money<br \/>\nFor them it\u2019s  underlined<br \/>\nBut clearly they are unbalanced<br \/>\nTo torture as the do<br \/>\nTo take it out on the animals<br \/>\nWho They are so clueless to<\/p>\n<p>The realisation<br \/>\nThe incredulity<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t have the capacity<br \/>\nTo really see it through<br \/>\nTheir backwardness leads clearly<br \/>\nTo what is actually abuse<br \/>\nCruelty and Infamy<br \/>\nThe kill their golden goose<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s all put down to arrogance<br \/>\nFor the camels they can beat<br \/>\nWhen they have all been tortured<br \/>\noften on the street<br \/>\nThey fall and then they are murdered<br \/>\nThroats cut  they drift away<br \/>\nWorked to death  take their last breath<br \/>\nfor such a life they pay<\/p>\n<p>As tourists we must show empathy<br \/>\nRealise that they<br \/>\nAre being abused they slave along<br \/>\nIn the hot sun every day<br \/>\nBeaten for their exercise<br \/>\nThreatened for their pain<br \/>\nThe handlers incompetence<br \/>\nClearly cannot gain<\/p>\n<p>Even an ounce of true respect<br \/>\nno expectation here<br \/>\nThey work the animals day and night<br \/>\nAnd do so in such fear<br \/>\nOf being brutally handled<br \/>\nTorture is their thing<br \/>\nThe tourists are the reason<br \/>\nAnd many with their bling<\/p>\n<p>Ride upon the animal<br \/>\nBedecked in scars and pain<br \/>\nOften bleeding from the nose<br \/>\nIt gets harder to regain<br \/>\nA semblance of true consciousness<br \/>\nAs the torture carries on<br \/>\nThe handlers go beyond decency<br \/>\nFor tourism a con<\/p>\n<p>Peta tells it like it really is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism seems to bring out The worst in many a soul In Egypt what the handlers do Prove they have lost control Their unruliness is awful Their savage brutal ways Extra heavy handed Imagining it pays Camels those great desert &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/camel-rides-in-egypt\/\">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":[344,173,194,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-africa","category-camela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41045","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=41045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41048,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41045\/revisions\/41048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}