{"id":8255,"date":"2013-05-05T19:38:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T19:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8255"},"modified":"2013-05-05T19:38:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T19:38:07","slug":"breaking-the-spirit-a-pastime-for-entertainment-purposes-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/breaking-the-spirit-a-pastime-for-entertainment-purposes-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the spirit ( a pastime for entertainment purposes around the world)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking an animals spirit<br \/>\na child of the wild<br \/>\nso to say<br \/>\nto me doesn&#8217;t do anything<br \/>\nfor us humans<br \/>\nhow on earth<br \/>\ncan this be a way<\/p>\n<p>of encouraging tigers to soften<br \/>\nit would rile and frustrate<br \/>\nany soul<br \/>\nbe ridiculed<br \/>\ntaunted in front of a crowd<br \/>\nde clawed so as to be<br \/>\nlost in a cloud<br \/>\nof doom let us say<br \/>\nno teeth to bite<br \/>\none&#8217;s armoury lost<br \/>\nin what once was the light<\/p>\n<p>now its not burning bright<br \/>\nBlake if he saw<br \/>\nwhat we are now seeing<br \/>\nhe I am sure would abhor<br \/>\nlike I do the treatment<br \/>\nof ignorant sods<br \/>\nbully no tactics<br \/>\naimed at these gods<br \/>\nthese wonderful souls<br \/>\nfrom the great jungles where<br \/>\nthey once ruled in earnest<br \/>\nbut now find despair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking an animals spirit a child of the wild so to say to me doesn&#8217;t do anything for us humans how on earth can this be a way of encouraging tigers to soften it would rile and frustrate any soul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/breaking-the-spirit-a-pastime-for-entertainment-purposes-around-the-world\/\">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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255","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=8255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8256,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions\/8256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}