{"id":45549,"date":"2020-04-20T13:32:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=45549"},"modified":"2020-04-20T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:35:04","slug":"%e2%80%9choney%e2%80%9d-the-sad-dolphin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/04\/%e2%80%9choney%e2%80%9d-the-sad-dolphin\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHoney\u201d the sad dolphin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has a inanity towards<br \/>\nWild creatures she<br \/>\nDrives them with audaciousness<br \/>\nAnd never mindfully<br \/>\nTalking up their brand of ZEN<br \/>\nWhere peacefulness apparently<br \/>\nExists in their tranquil garden scenes<br \/>\nBut not in their true philosophy<\/p>\n<p>They have so many blind spots<br \/>\nReally unseeing eyes<br \/>\nTake \u201cHoney\u201dthe bottle nosed dolphin<br \/>\nIs it any surprise<br \/>\nThat recently her heart gave out<br \/>\nAnd her eyes were forced to close<br \/>\nNo reason to be alive she thought<br \/>\nFor life within her froze<\/p>\n<p>Left in a small pond she was<br \/>\nAbandoned when the park<br \/>\nClosed they just forgot about her<br \/>\nHer world of light was dark<br \/>\nCaptivity was wretched<br \/>\nNot that the Japanese<br \/>\nCould ever contemplate another\u2019s stress<br \/>\nNor Socrates<br \/>\nor any other philospher<br \/>\nwould comment if they heard.<br \/>\nthe plight that Honey<br \/>\nWent through.<br \/>\nthat was wholly absurd<\/p>\n<p>And so in fact they scarpered<br \/>\nNot  thought of her again<br \/>\nLeft her without sustenance<br \/>\nTo suffer aches and pain<br \/>\nAnd sickness and the loneliness<br \/>\nOf her captivity<br \/>\nWith just some random penguins<br \/>\nTo keep her company<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese are masters<br \/>\nOf cruelty and pain<br \/>\nHard hearted spirits made of rock<br \/>\nThe shock and the disdain<br \/>\nKilled a beautiful creature<br \/>\nSlowly she drifted away<br \/>\nCrying tears of compassion<br \/>\nAnd what else can we say<\/p>\n<p>Other than<br \/>\nThe Japanese are ugly and cruel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has a inanity towards Wild creatures she Drives them with audaciousness And never mindfully Talking up their brand of ZEN Where peacefulness apparently Exists in their tranquil garden scenes But not in their true philosophy They have so many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/04\/%e2%80%9choney%e2%80%9d-the-sad-dolphin\/\">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":[344,173,4,296,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animal-rights","category-oceans-and-water-courses","category-orcas-and-dolphins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45549","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=45549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45551,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45549\/revisions\/45551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}