{"id":70774,"date":"2026-01-28T11:41:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=70774"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:05:51","slug":"where-tourists-are-drawn-for-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/01\/where-tourists-are-drawn-for-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Where tourists are drawn for memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It happened in Marrakesh<br \/>\nCrowded with visitors<br \/>\nPhotograph hunting<br \/>\nAnd what do we see<br \/>\nA poor little pony<br \/>\nTortured and broken<br \/>\nIn basic regalia<br \/>\nTraditionally<\/p>\n<p>Brazenly shown off<br \/>\nTo ignorant tourists<br \/>\nWho seemingly cannot see<br \/>\nThrough the vile show<br \/>\nAn animal proving neglect<br \/>\nIs it\u2019s by word<br \/>\nSupporting its torture<br \/>\nThey elect and on show<\/p>\n<p>To pay the vile torturer<br \/>\nSo they can capture<br \/>\nTheir dull smiling faces<br \/>\nThat nobody checked<br \/>\nThe agony obviously<br \/>\nOut in the sun<br \/>\nNo water to drink<br \/>\nStanding undone<br \/>\nBy the climatic evils<br \/>\nAnd the trader who earns<br \/>\nThe picture<br \/>\nTo take home<br \/>\nWith all our concerns.<\/p>\n<p>It, could be anywhere<br \/>\nAnimals sighing<br \/>\nBroken and underfed<br \/>\nMany more dying<br \/>\nBrutalised every hour<br \/>\nBroken inside<br \/>\nLike this Moroccan pony<br \/>\nThat the people denied<\/p>\n<p>Space and care to<br \/>\nLove and thought to<br \/>\nEven a cup of water to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happened in Marrakesh Crowded with visitors Photograph hunting And what do we see A poor little pony Tortured and broken In basic regalia Traditionally Brazenly shown off To ignorant tourists Who seemingly cannot see Through the vile show An &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/01\/where-tourists-are-drawn-for-memories\/\">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":[905,173,4,23,110,448,275,301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-activism","category-animal-rights","category-emotional-poems","category-horses","category-photography-and-general-audits","category-streetblife","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70774","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=70774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70779,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70774\/revisions\/70779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}