{"id":57519,"date":"2023-04-05T13:29:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T13:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=57519"},"modified":"2023-04-05T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T13:30:48","slug":"mortification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/04\/mortification\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easter a time when monsters<br \/>\nPartake of baby meat<br \/>\nNo compunction there at all<br \/>\nIt\u2019s seen as a treat<br \/>\nA tiny little baby<br \/>\nA lamb is how it\u2019s sold<br \/>\nA bouncing jolly lively soul<br \/>\nWorth its weight in gold<\/p>\n<p>To its mother but it\u2019s slaughtered<br \/>\nThroat cut, bled out, dead<br \/>\nIt was just elated<br \/>\nLying in the shed<br \/>\nLooking up at the farmer<br \/>\nThat jolly faced smiling chap<br \/>\nWho sprayed it\u2019s skin with killing paint<br \/>\nAnd it rapidly was led<\/p>\n<p>Off to make its maker<br \/>\nNo regrets at all<br \/>\nEaster was the lambing time<br \/>\nWe heard each whimpering call<br \/>\nBlubbering lamenting<br \/>\nMoist eyes seemingly<br \/>\nWhat a really pathetic time<br \/>\nDeplored by you and me<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s poor taste that\u2019s for certain<br \/>\nArtless vulgarity<br \/>\nThe supermarkets push the stuff<br \/>\nThe indelicacy<br \/>\nBoorish impoliteness<br \/>\nEvil if you asked me<br \/>\nCynical and disconsolate<br \/>\nLaced with savagery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter a time when monsters Partake of baby meat No compunction there at all It\u2019s seen as a treat A tiny little baby A lamb is how it\u2019s sold A bouncing jolly lively soul Worth its weight in gold To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/04\/mortification\/\">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":[344,173,216,340,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animal-sacrifice","category-captivity","category-lambs-and-sheep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57519","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=57519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57521,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57519\/revisions\/57521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}