{"id":6249,"date":"2013-03-10T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2013-03-19T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T11:08:16","slug":"im-shankar-and-elephant-still-chained-in-delhi-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/im-shankar-and-elephant-still-chained-in-delhi-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Shankar an elephant still chained in Delhi Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Shankar<br \/>\nthe elephant<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s what they called me<br \/>\nI am alone<br \/>\nin Delhi Zoo<br \/>\nI came from Zimbabwe<br \/>\nI&#8217;m chained up and lonely<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t you folks love me?<br \/>\nI need to be free<\/p>\n<p>Indian handlers<br \/>\nare very upsetting<br \/>\nthey don&#8217;t have a clue<br \/>\nand their bullhooks<br \/>\ndo pain<br \/>\nthey chain me up daily<br \/>\nmy legs are so sore now<br \/>\nthey kick me<br \/>\nthey punch me<br \/>\nmy life seems in vain<\/p>\n<p>They swear at me all the time<br \/>\nclearly they hate me<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been broken for ages<br \/>\nI just want to die<br \/>\nif there&#8217;s a god<br \/>\nhe must know now I languish<br \/>\nin this vile zoo<br \/>\nthough I still don&#8217;t know why<\/p>\n<p>Africa really is my true home<br \/>\nmy birth place<br \/>\nI cannot walk<br \/>\nor forage<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s no dust<br \/>\nfor my skin<br \/>\nand no pool to soak in<br \/>\nI&#8217;m beaten<br \/>\nI have  bruises<br \/>\nit is now wearing thin<\/p>\n<p>clearly these souls hate me<br \/>\nand I hate to be here<br \/>\nwill somebody on face book<br \/>\nlisten for its clear<br \/>\nI am a lonely soul you know<br \/>\nand people here don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nI&#8217;m dying just a bit each day<br \/>\nwhy are you not aware ?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Shankar<br \/>\nI&#8217;m an elephant<br \/>\nplease hear my lament<br \/>\nI cannot trumpet any more<br \/>\nmy poor old heart<br \/>\nis spent<br \/>\nI cry out though to all of you<br \/>\nin your vast countries and<br \/>\nask you from the bottom<br \/>\nof my heart to understand <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a direct appeal from Shankar the elephant through my whispering technique <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/im-shankar-and-elephant-still-chained-in-delhi-zoo\/\">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-6249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249","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=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6538,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions\/6538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}