{"id":72321,"date":"2026-07-25T18:34:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=72321"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:37:11","slug":"once-kings-of-the-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/07\/once-kings-of-the-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Once kings of the jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at us now<\/p>\n<p>members of zoo\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>we ate red meat once<\/p>\n<p>But Sadly \u00a0the news<\/p>\n<p>From far far away<\/p>\n<p>in South Africa where<\/p>\n<p>once there were fruit farms<\/p>\n<p>and now our despair<\/p>\n<p>is rampant alas<\/p>\n<p>trophy<\/p>\n<p>hunting places<\/p>\n<p>now farming Lions<\/p>\n<p>with peculiar faces<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we get little wild meat<\/p>\n<p>its boiled chickens, \u00a0we<\/p>\n<p>have to contend with<\/p>\n<p>and so we now be<br \/>\nin caged up tedium<\/p>\n<p>where monotony<\/p>\n<p>exists uninterestingly<br \/>\nour misery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>our kingly strengths<\/p>\n<p>usurped alas \u00a0We<\/p>\n<p>heavy with guilt<\/p>\n<p>insipid you see<\/p>\n<p>Our brethren brothers<\/p>\n<p>targets for those<\/p>\n<p>vile trophy hunters<\/p>\n<p>the dreariness grows<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>once they were fruit farms<\/p>\n<p>now it\u2019s barbed wire<\/p>\n<p>coops full of chickens<\/p>\n<p>staleness \u00a0and ire<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>yes we\u2019re deformed<\/p>\n<p>Exercise free<\/p>\n<p>dosed up with drugs<\/p>\n<p>haggard are we<\/p>\n<p>living in squalor<\/p>\n<p>the stench of the cell<\/p>\n<p>ravaged and wrinkled<\/p>\n<p>our lives are \u00a0 just HELL<\/p>\n<p>weaker by the day<\/p>\n<p>waiting to be<\/p>\n<p>shot by the<\/p>\n<p>So called<\/p>\n<p>hunters<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at us now members of zoo\u2019s we ate red meat once But Sadly \u00a0the news From far far away in South Africa where once there were fruit farms and now our despair is rampant alas trophy hunting places now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/07\/once-kings-of-the-jungle\/\">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":[905,194,512,507,102,123,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-africa","category-farming","category-humanity-is-a-shithouse","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-lions","category-lions-and-their-meat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72321","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=72321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72324,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72321\/revisions\/72324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}