{"id":62459,"date":"2024-02-08T08:17:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=62459"},"modified":"2024-02-08T08:28:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:28:24","slug":"a-donkey-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-donkey-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"A donkey in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What we see<br \/>\nWhat we imagine<br \/>\nNo gratefulness no sense<br \/>\nThe Chinese Communist Party members<br \/>\nMany are well dense<\/p>\n<p>Their gratitude for life itself<br \/>\nCompletely lost and gone<br \/>\nWhat we see is a donkey<br \/>\nKilled for meat<br \/>\nLying upon <\/p>\n<p>a table<br \/>\nDrenched in duvet<br \/>\nWhich brought<br \/>\ngreat laughs to those<br \/>\nIdiots<br \/>\nWhose humanity in short<br \/>\nDid kind of pose<br \/>\nSo unmindful, weird and ugly<br \/>\nHeartless to be sure<br \/>\nUnfeeling and impassive<br \/>\nMerciless and more<\/p>\n<p>The donkey a wise fellow<br \/>\nWorks hard for his hay<br \/>\nClearly struggles in a life<br \/>\nOf ugliness and dismay<br \/>\nIs killed and then draped with<br \/>\nA cloth or a yes duvet<br \/>\nAnd photographed for the media<br \/>\nTo laugh at<br \/>\nLet me say<\/p>\n<p>What worse thing can we imagine<br \/>\nA donkey so abused<br \/>\nFor  \u201cEJIAO\u201d and for meat, apparently<br \/>\nHis great big heart so bruised<br \/>\nSo agonisingly painful<br \/>\nTo see his saintly glare<br \/>\nAnd the communists all happy<br \/>\nSeeing this creature there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we see What we imagine No gratefulness no sense The Chinese Communist Party members Many are well dense Their gratitude for life itself Completely lost and gone What we see is a donkey Killed for meat Lying upon a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-donkey-in-china\/\">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":[344,173,4,147,251,22,184,229,377,28,29,507,473,332],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animal-rights","category-animals-used-for-food","category-china-food-obscenity","category-death-and-dying","category-donkeys-and-working-animals","category-dumbed-down-and-ghoulish","category-duty-of-care-was-never-there","category-food","category-food-processing","category-humanity-is-a-shithouse","category-tcm","category-the-dkin-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62459","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=62459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62463,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62459\/revisions\/62463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}