{"id":51666,"date":"2021-08-15T11:07:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T11:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=51666"},"modified":"2021-08-15T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T11:08:29","slug":"the-inglorious-twelth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/08\/the-inglorious-twelth\/","title":{"rendered":"The inglorious Twelth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The glorious twelth<\/p>\n<p>in truthfulness is<\/p>\n<p>mendacious and wrong<\/p>\n<p>forget the showbiz<\/p>\n<p>Summer is here<\/p>\n<p>in the North hear the cry<\/p>\n<p>the heathers gone purple<\/p>\n<p>and the grouse they must die<\/p>\n<p>4 months of shooting<\/p>\n<p>Today the third day<\/p>\n<p>driven grouse shooting<\/p>\n<p>keep out of our way<\/p>\n<p>a pastime for the wealthy<\/p>\n<p>with riches galore<\/p>\n<p>but less in their heads and their hearts<\/p>\n<p>Its a war<\/p>\n<p>the poor souls are beating<\/p>\n<p>frightening birds<\/p>\n<p>the cowards in their shrouds<\/p>\n<p>oh yes I am lost for words<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful wild souls<\/p>\n<p>frightened to death<\/p>\n<p>fly into the \u00a0sky<\/p>\n<p>and then relieved of their breath<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>so much deceit<\/p>\n<p>Raptors will die<\/p>\n<p>Hen harriers \u00a0slaughtered<\/p>\n<p>dont ask me why<\/p>\n<p>huge swatches of land<\/p>\n<p>burned down to the peat<\/p>\n<p>who cares about carbon<\/p>\n<p>It is \u00a0the elite<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>out on the moors<\/p>\n<p>doing what rich souls do<\/p>\n<p>murdering wildlife<\/p>\n<p>The playacting few<\/p>\n<p>talk about craft<\/p>\n<p>when its guile that we see<\/p>\n<p>a bush and snare<\/p>\n<p>and complete dupery<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>wiping out Raptors<\/p>\n<p>wiping out Grouse<\/p>\n<p>bad for the landscape<\/p>\n<p>where is their nouse<\/p>\n<p>All good \u00a0at business<\/p>\n<p>thats what they think<\/p>\n<p>doing their deals<\/p>\n<p>and enjoying the drink<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the nouveau riche flourishing they<\/p>\n<p>their affluence flowing<\/p>\n<p>Its all on display<\/p>\n<p>from harmony cometh<\/p>\n<p>a challenging wall<\/p>\n<p>of lead shot and bluster<\/p>\n<p>as the bodies \u00a0just fall<\/p>\n<p>like hail on \u00a0the hill tops<\/p>\n<p>just spiralling down<\/p>\n<p>underhand tactics<\/p>\n<p>and many will drown<\/p>\n<p>in their own blood<\/p>\n<p>a blood bath \u00a0a slaughter<\/p>\n<p>salvoes<\/p>\n<p>of thundering lead<\/p>\n<p>all caught up in \u00a0the prose<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>The glorious twelth in truthfulness is mendacious and wrong forget the showbiz Summer is here in the North hear the cry the heathers gone purple and the grouse they must die 4 months of shooting Today the third day driven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/08\/the-inglorious-twelth\/\">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":[344,173,102,134,363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-wild-birds","category-wildness-is-our-friend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51666","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=51666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51668,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51666\/revisions\/51668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}