{"id":41187,"date":"2019-05-06T16:28:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T16:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=41187"},"modified":"2019-05-06T16:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T16:30:06","slug":"plunder-sounds-like-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/05\/plunder-sounds-like-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Plunder sounds like thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The whiff of Chinese food<br \/>\nIs clearly in the air<br \/>\nThe red flags flying<br \/>\nClearly we can see<br \/>\nMore Chinese faces<br \/>\nWandering around<br \/>\nMaputo<br \/>\nThe benefits of Africa<br \/>\nNow be<\/p>\n<p>Cheap labour<br \/>\nAnd a workforce clearly hungry<br \/>\nPlundering it\u2019s benefits<br \/>\nFeels good<br \/>\nMassive amounts of minerals<br \/>\nTo claw out of the earth<br \/>\nChina has the clout<br \/>\nAnd surely could<\/p>\n<p>Deliver on its promises<br \/>\nTo help itself<br \/>\nIt\u2019s 1.3 billion<br \/>\nAnd growing fast<br \/>\nAnd unbelievable population<br \/>\nTurning out the goods<br \/>\nJust look at Mozambique<br \/>\nAnd feel aghast<\/p>\n<p>Mining getting underneath the earth<br \/>\nAnd digging through<br \/>\nShipping out vast sand deposits<br \/>\nAluminium too<br \/>\nCopper gold and steel<br \/>\nTheir forests torn a\u2019sunder<br \/>\nKeep the red flag flying<br \/>\nAnd the Bantu under<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese spell<br \/>\nIt\u2019s happening<br \/>\nAlmost everywhere<br \/>\nthey have  the money<br \/>\nThey have the nouse<br \/>\nAnd everyone\u2019s aware<br \/>\nReally all over Africa<br \/>\nThe invasion it is on<br \/>\nAnd probably won\u2019t be satisfied<br \/>\nTill everything is gone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whiff of Chinese food Is clearly in the air The red flags flying Clearly we can see More Chinese faces Wandering around Maputo The benefits of Africa Now be Cheap labour And a workforce clearly hungry Plundering it\u2019s benefits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/05\/plunder-sounds-like-thunder\/\">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":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41187","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=41187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41189,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41187\/revisions\/41189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}