{"id":9138,"date":"2013-06-24T00:21:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T00:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2013-06-24T00:32:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T00:32:12","slug":"ivory-the-trade-in-blood-that-leaves-its-trail-across-many-continents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/06\/ivory-the-trade-in-blood-that-leaves-its-trail-across-many-continents\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory the trade in blood that leaves its trail across many continents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory<br \/>\nthe tusk of Elephants<br \/>\na god form creation<br \/>\nthey were granted this grand tool<br \/>\nfor them<br \/>\na true salvation<br \/>\ntragically men came along<br \/>\nwith evil intent they<br \/>\ndecided they could use this tusk<br \/>\nto carve and make it pay<br \/>\nbut waiting for the elephants to<br \/>\ndie appeared to be<br \/>\nfar too long when man<br \/>\ncould have them killed<br \/>\nso he could free<br \/>\ntheir tusks for his embellishments<br \/>\nand so it was that he<br \/>\nbecame a bloody murderer<br \/>\nof the elephant who be<\/p>\n<p>stalwart in their service<br \/>\nbut frail compared to man<br \/>\na very sincere spirit<br \/>\nand somewhat of a fan<br \/>\ngenerous of nature<br \/>\nwith a heartfelt wish to be<br \/>\nout there marching for the cause<br \/>\nbut against his weaponry<br \/>\nthey didn&#8217;t have an answer<br \/>\nthe arrogance displayed<br \/>\nthe selfishness that ruled his world<br \/>\nno matter how much each weighed<br \/>\nIvory was blood itself<br \/>\nand many souls have died<br \/>\nthe great tool  man has stolen<br \/>\nwhich often he&#8217;s denied<\/p>\n<p>stolen and used tragically<br \/>\nfor ornamentation he<br \/>\nhas wasted this true god form<br \/>\nthroughout antiquity<br \/>\nhe showed his vilest colours<br \/>\nand tragically we know<br \/>\nthe Elephant has perished<br \/>\nin a senseless eerie glow<br \/>\ncreation looks upon us<br \/>\nnot in wonderment or joy<br \/>\nbut in a strange derisive sense<br \/>\nour arrogance could destroy<br \/>\nnot only all the elephants<br \/>\nbut man un kind as well<br \/>\nwhose ivory embellishments<br \/>\nmay accompany him to Hell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory the tusk of Elephants a god form creation they were granted this grand tool for them a true salvation tragically men came along with evil intent they decided they could use this tusk to carve and make it pay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/06\/ivory-the-trade-in-blood-that-leaves-its-trail-across-many-continents\/\">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-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","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=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9140,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions\/9140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}