{"id":52,"date":"2011-11-13T18:43:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T18:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2011-11-13T18:43:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T18:43:55","slug":"the-bushmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/the-bushmen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bushmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">The Bushmen are a loyal and honest people<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve lived and died on this land, and for you<br \/>\nTo drive them off this land is unconstitutional<br \/>\n<!--more-->But beyond that it is heartless so to do<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">They don&#8217;t have guns, just spears and bows<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">and arrows and its as much their land as it is yours<br \/>\nWho gives you the right to play God with them<br \/>\nReally I must ask what is the cause<\/p>\n<p>of so much animosity, toward them<br \/>\nThey were the first people, after all<br \/>\nRefusing them access to the fresh water<br \/>\nis simply, wholly rotten and unfair<\/p>\n<p>you build a wall, which they poor things<br \/>\ncannot get over easily<br \/>\nand so they have to try and find a way<br \/>\nOf getting what is after all God given<br \/>\nFor you have taken<br \/>\nAll their rights away<\/p>\n<p>Survival has been hoping you would help them<br \/>\nJust understand their predicament and sow<br \/>\nsome seeds, really it is very simple<br \/>\nBut there appears an impasse which now feeds<\/p>\n<p>The argument and so it just gets bigger<br \/>\nThey have to have your help for otherwise<br \/>\nWithout it they are lost yes lost forever<br \/>\nWithout your help we may see their demise<\/p>\n<p>Let them live there<br \/>\nLet them use the borehole<br \/>\nThese First people otherwise are lost<br \/>\nBotswana it will mean we lose their presence<br \/>\nTo have this on your conscience, well the cost<\/p>\n<p>Is too high for a people, its just terrible<br \/>\nSense it must prevail I beg of you<br \/>\nBeg you please in honour of these people<br \/>\nThe Bushmen need help and I beg you do<\/p>\n<p>Bushmen are a proud and honest people<br \/>\nBushmen need your help, like ne&#8217;er before<br \/>\nI beg you grant them land, and hunting licences<br \/>\nand the precious water source needed for sure<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bushmen are a loyal and honest people They&#8217;ve lived and died on this land, and for you To drive them off this land is unconstitutional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous-people","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}