{"id":43486,"date":"2019-12-11T11:32:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T11:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=43486"},"modified":"2020-06-10T18:32:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T18:32:36","slug":"face-to-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/12\/face-to-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Face to face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inevitable<br \/>\nThe face to face encounter<br \/>\nA victim feels the peril<br \/>\nThe victors wearing fur<br \/>\nHe\u2019 s inherited the vilest<br \/>\nCharacteristics<br \/>\nWorking for fur companies<br \/>\nWho were<br \/>\nAlways in the market<br \/>\nFor the finest furs available<br \/>\nWildness is the quality<br \/>\nThey need<br \/>\nFace to face with death<br \/>\nAnd all it\u2019s rotten implications<br \/>\nTaking on a trapper<br \/>\nAnd knowing who will bleed<\/p>\n<p>Heartless and unfeeling<br \/>\nIs the trapper<br \/>\nContraptions of this kind<br \/>\nAre wholly bad<br \/>\nImpenetrable souls<br \/>\nUnimaginative roles<br \/>\nPhilistines whose one idea<br \/>\nIs to torture a wild lad<\/p>\n<p>Their eyes meet<br \/>\nIt is over for the wild soul<br \/>\nWorked into a frenzy<br \/>\nAnd now he will<br \/>\nBe wasted on the spot<br \/>\nFor his coat he won\u2019t earn a lot<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the fashion houses<br \/>\nAnd designers that have got<\/p>\n<p>An arrogance above and beyond<br \/>\nTheir station<br \/>\nIgnorance of animals who should<br \/>\nGain respect for they live in their existence<br \/>\nTrapping them just because they could<br \/>\nIs cowardly and a repulsive way of earning<br \/>\nA crust one has to say and dutifully<br \/>\nWearing fur you are guilty above all others<br \/>\nAnd whenever I see it worn<br \/>\nTake it from me<\/p>\n<p>I want to call you out<br \/>\nFor being unruffled and unshaken<br \/>\nObtuse and unimaginative<br \/>\nHateful in the extreme<br \/>\nYou cause such desolation<br \/>\nTo families of the wooded vales<br \/>\nAnd in the ether conjure a black stream<br \/>\nThat permeates the trappers mind and spirit<br \/>\nAn evil that creates a vast new void<br \/>\nIntolerable behaviour<br \/>\nButtock clenching pain<br \/>\nAnd you and people like you<br \/>\nAre the real dregs in the drain.<\/p>\n<p>The poor  raccoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inevitable The face to face encounter A victim feels the peril The victors wearing fur He\u2019 s inherited the vilest Characteristics Working for fur companies Who were Always in the market For the finest furs available Wildness is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/12\/face-to-face\/\">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":[344,173,189,101,196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-foxes","category-furs-and-the-fur-industry","category-traps-and-snares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43486","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=43486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46373,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43486\/revisions\/46373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}