{"id":7263,"date":"2013-03-28T10:15:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T10:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7263"},"modified":"2013-03-28T10:18:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T10:18:52","slug":"the-iconic-kangaroo-is-not-safe-in-australia-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/the-iconic-kangaroo-is-not-safe-in-australia-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"The iconic Kangaroo is not safe in Australia anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know quite a lot about Australia<br \/>\nhaving travelled more miles there<br \/>\nthan most<br \/>\nKangaroos are being slaughtered<br \/>\nall the time<br \/>\nrestaurants  mostly serve their flesh with  toast<\/p>\n<p>I booked out of two hotels who had<br \/>\nwild meat on the menu<br \/>\nthey thought I was mad, perhaps I was<br \/>\nbut they are such<br \/>\ninsensitive creatures<br \/>\nthe hotel managers I mean<br \/>\nreally up the top<br \/>\nwell just because<\/p>\n<p>the most iconic creature<br \/>\nneeds protection<br \/>\nyou will seldom see them<br \/>\nthey are so defiled<br \/>\nshot and ambushed their babies stomped on<br \/>\nits very rarely you see them in the wild<br \/>\nright across the Nullabor not one, did I see<br \/>\nall the way to Darwin<br \/>\nit was yea, Roo free<br \/>\nall the way to Cairns not one<br \/>\nand to Brizzy then by rail<br \/>\nnot one did I see<br \/>\njust loads of bloody sugar cane<br \/>\nlooking back at me<br \/>\nthe roo is killed here mercilessly<br \/>\nits an evil that they hold<br \/>\ntheir hearts are made of beer and flesh<br \/>\nthe hunters are so cold<\/p>\n<p>Un yet up close its such a lovely<br \/>\nsoul, and cares<br \/>\nmore about the environment<br \/>\nit lives in and it shares<br \/>\na place with the aboriginie<br \/>\nwho also gets bad press<br \/>\nwho also cares a lot about<br \/>\na lot<br \/>\nand seeks redress<br \/>\nbut those first people<br \/>\nthose sweet souls<br \/>\nthose guardians who knew<br \/>\nabout the earth<br \/>\nand its worth<br \/>\nthey are shunned that is my view<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know quite a lot about Australia having travelled more miles there than most Kangaroos are being slaughtered all the time restaurants mostly serve their flesh with toast I booked out of two hotels who had wild meat on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/the-iconic-kangaroo-is-not-safe-in-australia-anymore\/\">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":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kangaroos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263","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=7263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7265,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions\/7265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}