{"id":70761,"date":"2026-01-27T12:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=70761"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:05:48","slug":"a-bear-in-a-concrete-pit-in-some-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-bear-in-a-concrete-pit-in-some-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"A bear in a concrete pit  in some zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Educational to the ignorance<br \/>\nOf zoo keepers whose living stocks<br \/>\nAre tortured animals from the wild<br \/>\nParaded to take all the knocks<br \/>\nIn a concrete cell unnaturally<br \/>\nTo pine away each hour<br \/>\nIt breaks their hearts it tears at their soul<br \/>\nIt draws out all their power<br \/>\nA ticket to see them suffering<br \/>\nA creeping infamy<br \/>\nAn ugliness so rampant<br \/>\nThe heartfelt symphony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educational to the ignorance Of zoo keepers whose living stocks Are tortured animals from the wild Paraded to take all the knocks In a concrete cell unnaturally To pine away each hour It breaks their hearts it tears at their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-bear-in-a-concrete-pit-in-some-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":[344,98,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-bears","category-zoos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70761","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=70761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70762,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70761\/revisions\/70762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}