{"id":5701,"date":"2013-02-14T08:38:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T08:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5701"},"modified":"2013-03-19T13:20:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:20:42","slug":"elephants-and-ivory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/02\/elephants-and-ivory\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephants and Ivory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years we&#8217;ve seen it coming<br \/>\nand now its here and we know<br \/>\nif this criminality continues<br \/>\nthe elephant victims grow<br \/>\nit will be quickly realised<br \/>\nThe elephant will be<br \/>\nextinct and gone forever<br \/>\nno longer will we see<br \/>\nthat great and wondrous being<br \/>\nrunning through the wild<br \/>\nplaying in the mud holes<br \/>\nalongside its sweet child<br \/>\nand of course we know its all<br \/>\nbecause of Ivory<br \/>\nthe stuff of Kings and Queens<br \/>\nand those who know<br \/>\npeople clearly, lots they look the other way<br \/>\nand the elephants being slaughtered it does grow<br \/>\ninsidious is this vile and highly profitable<br \/>\ntrade with China and its got to be<br \/>\nthe market has been growing a big spanner they&#8217;ve been throwing in the survival for we see<br \/>\nhundreds being machine gunned out in Africa<br \/>\npoachers,hunters call them what you will<br \/>\nthey get a ransom for the wholesale slaughter<br \/>\nand clearly now so many they do kill<br \/>\nunless the world wakes up and stops this happening<br \/>\nElephants are doomed I have to say<br \/>\nall those working in the bush to save them<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t match the ugliness and the dismay<br \/>\ncaused by what is evil yes evil in our midst<br \/>\nand a lot of people at it unlikely to desist<br \/>\nso the writing is now on the wall for Elephants<br \/>\nhumans beings are a greedy breed<br \/>\nthey&#8217;d rather kill and maim the greatest living soul<br \/>\nso the Ivory traders can succeed<br \/>\nAnimals rights and conservation people compared to all the rich who want to buy<br \/>\nIvory for investment or whatever are out numbered and out gunned I wonder why?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory it will now mean the end of the elephant <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/02\/elephants-and-ivory\/\">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":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701","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=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6609,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions\/6609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}