{"id":8483,"date":"2013-05-17T13:08:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8483"},"modified":"2013-05-17T13:33:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:33:55","slug":"mother-and-child-slaves-to-the-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/mother-and-child-slaves-to-the-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother and child slaves to the cause   (somewhere in Thailand)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is so evil<br \/>\nan elephant mother<br \/>\nchained to the ground<br \/>\nthere can be no other<br \/>\ntorture as extreme<br \/>\nfor a matriarch to<br \/>\nsuffer and her baby<br \/>\nis chained up there too<\/p>\n<p>playful, inquisitive<br \/>\nlaying upon<br \/>\nher sweet little soul<br \/>\nnow ragged and gone<br \/>\nselflessly her mother<br \/>\ntries to instil joy<br \/>\nbut the poor little soul<br \/>\ncannot deploy<br \/>\nitself to the task anymore<br \/>\nits heart appears broken<br \/>\nits body is sore<\/p>\n<p>in the fires that now burn<br \/>\nin the smoke, it now lies<br \/>\nthe chains that do bind<br \/>\nmakes us all realise<br \/>\nwhat its like as a slave<br \/>\nin our world of unrest<br \/>\nwhere little is planned<br \/>\nand nothing is blessed<\/p>\n<p>to lay in the dirt<br \/>\nwith one&#8217;s head on the ground<br \/>\nlooking up at the sky<br \/>\nin a tawdry soup drowned<br \/>\nthe legs torn and chafed<br \/>\nfrom the links of the chain<br \/>\nthat tear at the tendons<br \/>\nagain and again<\/p>\n<p>slavery isn&#8217;t the most beguiling form<br \/>\nin the heat of the day<br \/>\nthe dark of the storm<br \/>\ntranscends every spirit<br \/>\nthat made wild souls flee<br \/>\ncontainment unsettles us<br \/>\neventually<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so evil an elephant mother chained to the ground there can be no other torture as extreme for a matriarch to suffer and her baby is chained up there too playful, inquisitive laying upon her sweet little soul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/mother-and-child-slaves-to-the-cause\/\">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":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483","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=8483"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}