{"id":49695,"date":"2021-01-28T17:39:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=49695"},"modified":"2021-01-28T17:42:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:42:02","slug":"cretian-sea-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/01\/cretian-sea-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Cretian Sea Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caring,  knives out ready<br \/>\nA ball of  net and knot<br \/>\nFishing gear abandoned<br \/>\nWhat a rotten lot<br \/>\nReally lacking judgement<br \/>\nWe just chuck shit away<br \/>\nThe turtle lives under the sea<br \/>\nBut of course is made to pay<\/p>\n<p>The couple care and share<br \/>\nTheir love<br \/>\nFreeing the turtle, they<br \/>\nAll this sticky nylon netting<br \/>\nOf course gets in the way<br \/>\nThe poor soul free<br \/>\nHis carapace, his legs a weary soul<br \/>\nEntering the wild surf<br \/>\nTaking back his role<\/p>\n<p>The tide is wild and aggressive<br \/>\nIts coming in like crazy<br \/>\nThe ocean welcomes back a son<br \/>\nDon\u2019t ever call him lazy<br \/>\nFor days he struggled<br \/>\nLaboriously<br \/>\nIt cut into his skin<br \/>\nSuffering the ultimate<br \/>\nHis patience wearing thin<\/p>\n<p>A couple on a beach in Crete<br \/>\nWith open eyes who cared<br \/>\nDashed into the spicy tide<br \/>\nHis life in fact they spared<br \/>\nCutting all the nylon strands<br \/>\nThe knots and parcel he<br \/>\nWas part of<br \/>\nHow he struggled for an eternity<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the couple who cared<br \/>\nAnd to the fishermen who use and abuse<br \/>\nIt should happen to you or to your children.<br \/>\nUse the sea wisely think ahead of the agony<br \/>\nOther encounter because of you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caring, knives out ready A ball of net and knot Fishing gear abandoned What a rotten lot Really lacking judgement We just chuck shit away The turtle lives under the sea But of course is made to pay The couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/01\/cretian-sea-turtle\/\">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":[344,173,24,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-environmental-poems","category-turtles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49695","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=49695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49697,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49695\/revisions\/49697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}