{"id":43708,"date":"2020-01-03T22:26:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T22:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=43708"},"modified":"2020-01-03T22:26:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T22:26:29","slug":"poachers-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/01\/poachers-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Poachers at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Nature Reserve<br \/>\nIn South Africa<br \/>\nSuffered an incident where<br \/>\n8 lions were poisoned<br \/>\nUsing toxic meat<br \/>\nAnd died in the vilest despair<br \/>\nPoachers then removed their paws<br \/>\nAnd their jaws<br \/>\n\u201cMuti\u201d the reason believed<br \/>\nIn Zulu it\u2019s medicine<br \/>\nA form of magic<br \/>\nWhat This dastardly theft has achieved<\/p>\n<p>What is seen as irreverence<br \/>\nOn a grand scale<br \/>\nRangers were in disbelief<br \/>\nHow could this happen<br \/>\nAll done in cold blood<br \/>\nAnd causing a whole lot of grief<br \/>\nEverything points to a local event<br \/>\nThe hideousness that was shown<br \/>\nThey knew what they wanted<br \/>\nThis odious crime<br \/>\nIt was clearly well planned<br \/>\nAnd the tone<br \/>\nSpeaks volumes<br \/>\nOf purging the spirits<br \/>\nOf black magic rituals<br \/>\nThat are<br \/>\nCommon place around the area<br \/>\nThis was not China<br \/>\nA scar<\/p>\n<p>Though that\u2019s deep and repulsive<br \/>\nAnd sadly<br \/>\nThose animals suffered<br \/>\nFor they<br \/>\nThe paws and the jaws and the teeth<br \/>\nWould be used<br \/>\nit was seen as a very sad day<\/p>\n<p>Clearly such wickedness<br \/>\nIs commonplace<br \/>\nAn abomination to see<br \/>\n8 beautiful Lions<br \/>\nPoisoned and abused<br \/>\nFor felonious acts<br \/>\nLocally<br \/>\nIt\u2019s monstrous that\u2019s still<br \/>\nIn this day and age<br \/>\nTransgressors are doing it still<br \/>\nSuch rituals are seen as unpardonable<br \/>\nActs<br \/>\nDebauched and depraved just at will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nature Reserve In South Africa Suffered an incident where 8 lions were poisoned Using toxic meat And died in the vilest despair Poachers then removed their paws And their jaws \u201cMuti\u201d the reason believed In Zulu it\u2019s medicine A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/01\/poachers-at-work\/\">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":[344,173,194,340,123,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-africa","category-captivity","category-lions","category-lions-and-their-meat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43708","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=43708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43709,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43708\/revisions\/43709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}