{"id":71940,"date":"2026-06-29T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71940"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:50:26","slug":"icelandic-a-fin-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/06\/icelandic-a-fin-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic a fin Whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>captain A sailor<br \/>\nHis riches are many<br \/>\nThis whale hunting misery<br \/>\nSailing the seas<br \/>\nShooting harpoons Into beautiful creatures<br \/>\nWith great hearts and souls<br \/>\nHe is their disease<br \/>\n He murders these fine beasts<br \/>\nTortured and frightens them<br \/>\nWeighing great tonnage Drags them along<br \/>\n It may take hours For death to accomplish<br \/>\nHis weird fascination<br \/>\nHe thinks he has powers<br \/>\nOver them such is his sickness<br \/>\nDestroying beautiful creatures Who traverse the deep<br \/>\nAnd what does he do with such splendid creations<br \/>\nCuts them to pieces This vilest of creep<br \/>\n Flogs them to Japan Where parts are then eaten<br \/>\nsold as fish fillets<br \/>\nNot whale meat for he Knows<br \/>\nthat sensitive workers In several ports<br \/>\n Would boycott the cargo Protected species There are lots of people Who hold lovely thoughts<br \/>\nFor whales being slaughtered All over the oceans Fin whales these baleen whales Giants among<br \/>\n Creature below the waves Breaching and showing Their glorious body mass Yes the unsung<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>captain A sailor His riches are many This whale hunting misery Sailing the seas Shooting harpoons Into beautiful creatures With great hearts and souls He is their disease He murders these fine beasts Tortured and frightens them Weighing great tonnage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/06\/icelandic-a-fin-whales\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71940","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=71940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71941,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71940\/revisions\/71941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}