{"id":41818,"date":"2019-07-20T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T09:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=41818"},"modified":"2019-07-20T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T09:26:29","slug":"the-ibex-and-it%e2%80%99s-mineral-intake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-ibex-and-it%e2%80%99s-mineral-intake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ibex and it\u2019s mineral intake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without nutritionists or doctors<br \/>\nWild animals they know<br \/>\nHow to get a balanced meal<br \/>\nFrom what in fact does grow<br \/>\nHow to supplement their diets<br \/>\nAnd keep them healthy they<br \/>\nScale the mountains and the the dams<br \/>\nTo help them on their way<\/p>\n<p>Various dams in Italy<br \/>\nBare witness to it all<br \/>\nThey scale sheer walls<br \/>\nTo lick the salts away<br \/>\nAnd few do fall<br \/>\nEtteringite a by-product<br \/>\nOf the concrete that we use<br \/>\nAnd the IBEX knows nutritionally<br \/>\nThis stuff is too good to lose<\/p>\n<p>And so it makes the climb<br \/>\nSo dangerous as could be<br \/>\nWithout the salt lick and the minerals<br \/>\nThe goat would die, you see<br \/>\nIt\u2019s constancy and steadfastness<br \/>\nIt\u2019s commitment to its cause<br \/>\nIt\u2019s fortitude and persistence<br \/>\nSees it\u2019s through it\u2019s wars<\/p>\n<p>And gives it all that staying power<br \/>\nIt\u2019s unflagging efforts to<br \/>\nSurvive in this environment<br \/>\nAnd stay healthy which is true<br \/>\nWithin its brain<br \/>\nInstinctive knowledge<br \/>\nPut there by its god<br \/>\nUnlike us who think we know it all<br \/>\nAnd make a rod<\/p>\n<p>For our own backs<br \/>\nBelieving the crap that people say<br \/>\nWe buy into  nutrition<br \/>\nThinking it\u2019s a way<br \/>\nWe wouldn\u2019t dare scale dam walls<br \/>\nThe IBEX you see they<br \/>\nAre the true believers<br \/>\nAt the back end of each day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without nutritionists or doctors Wild animals they know How to get a balanced meal From what in fact does grow How to supplement their diets And keep them healthy they Scale the mountains and the the dams To help them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-ibex-and-it%e2%80%99s-mineral-intake\/\">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":[4,24,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-environmental-poems","category-goats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41818","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=41818"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41823,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41818\/revisions\/41823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}