{"id":51374,"date":"2021-06-20T23:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T23:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=51374"},"modified":"2021-06-20T23:13:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T23:13:15","slug":"orangutans-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/06\/orangutans-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"Orangutan\u2019s lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Such insolence<\/p>\n<p>the attitude of villagers<\/p>\n<p>these days<\/p>\n<p>their presumption<\/p>\n<p>that the native<\/p>\n<p>is the one who pays<\/p>\n<p>high up on the coconuts<\/p>\n<p>where else should he be<\/p>\n<p>thats is where his mother<\/p>\n<p>Put him \u00a0in the canopy<\/p>\n<p>the audacity of human beings<\/p>\n<p>selfish disrespect<\/p>\n<p>just call OFI<\/p>\n<p>and expect them to eject<\/p>\n<p>a full grown male<\/p>\n<p>a person of the forest to be sure<\/p>\n<p>who celebrates his freedom<\/p>\n<p>as his ancestors did before.<\/p>\n<p>treating them with enmity<\/p>\n<p>sees ill feeling everywhere<\/p>\n<p>its the lack of \u00a0understanding<\/p>\n<p>and not being aware<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>imagine the great Ape<\/p>\n<p>he don\u2019t feel great<\/p>\n<p>not any more<\/p>\n<p>moved on always moved on<\/p>\n<p>and shouted at<\/p>\n<p>his core<\/p>\n<p>of understanding<\/p>\n<p>chaotic<\/p>\n<p>the poor soul<\/p>\n<p>feels their spite<\/p>\n<p>human beings are far from kind<\/p>\n<p>and we know that he is right<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OFI Camp Leakey<\/p>\n<p>takes on all the woe<\/p>\n<p>offers up some tenderness<\/p>\n<p>and sympathy we know<\/p>\n<p>Dr Birute has given her life<\/p>\n<p>for the great Apes night and day<\/p>\n<p>and even in her Autumn time<\/p>\n<p>of life its still her way<\/p>\n<p>to help them and respect them<\/p>\n<p>and somehow try to deal<\/p>\n<p>with ignorance and repugnance<\/p>\n<p>and we know how she must feel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Lady thanks for all you do<\/p>\n<p>an angel without s doubt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such insolence the attitude of villagers these days their presumption that the native is the one who pays high up on the coconuts where else should he be thats is where his mother Put him \u00a0in the canopy the audacity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/06\/orangutans-lament\/\">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":[344,173,4,24,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animal-rights","category-environmental-poems","category-orangutanperson-of-the-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51374","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=51374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51377,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51374\/revisions\/51377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}