{"id":9824,"date":"2013-07-19T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T10:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9824"},"modified":"2013-07-19T10:47:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T10:47:53","slug":"greece-a-dog-story-not-steeped-in-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/07\/greece-a-dog-story-not-steeped-in-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece (a dog story not steeped in glory)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece is heading toward<br \/>\nthe cruellest place now in the world<br \/>\nwhat some people do to animals<br \/>\nall of this unfurled<br \/>\nand its tantamount Hell on earth now<br \/>\nand to evil everyday<br \/>\nthe digest comes and the victims<br \/>\nare in our face<br \/>\nthe way<br \/>\nGreece now seems to be handling<br \/>\nits problems tragically<br \/>\nis its taking it out on its animals<br \/>\ncreating  a purgatory<br \/>\nToday,  out in Evros<br \/>\na dog found in a bin<br \/>\ncovered in multiple scratches<br \/>\nin complete misery<br \/>\nbadly burned and  so very thin<br \/>\nthis is terrible torture<br \/>\nof the voiceless<br \/>\nand thrown in a bin<br \/>\nto die<br \/>\nwith its back legs tied up tight<br \/>\nwith string<br \/>\nand it lies there asking why?<\/p>\n<p>What had it done to deserve all this<br \/>\nit had never barked out loud<br \/>\nit had never scratched the furniture<br \/>\nor tried to chase a cloud<br \/>\nit had acted as a guard dog<br \/>\nand had warned its master well<br \/>\ndespite the food he gave it<br \/>\ndespite the life of Hell<\/p>\n<p>he had really been a good boy<br \/>\nobedient all his days<br \/>\nso how come he was now beaten up<br \/>\nand devoid of all praise<br \/>\nit just was not appropriate<br \/>\nit really wasn&#8217;t fair<br \/>\nand being thrown in a garbage bin<br \/>\nto die and to be  aware<br \/>\nof the lack of true compassion<br \/>\nof<br \/>\nbeing unloved too<br \/>\nto go to meet one&#8217;s maker<br \/>\nwith such thoughts<br \/>\ndoes things for you<\/p>\n<p>a finality of reasoning<br \/>\nno way back after all<br \/>\nto really come to terms with it<br \/>\nis really the worst call<br \/>\nlaying down  your head feels heavy<br \/>\ntears well up in your eyes<br \/>\nyour heart is beating rapidly<br \/>\nas you realise<br \/>\nthe terror that is coming<br \/>\nthe sorrow that you feel<br \/>\nthe horror of the moment<br \/>\nhow your passing will be  real<\/p>\n<p>you close your eyes<br \/>\nyou say goodbye<br \/>\nwinding down you know<br \/>\nyou will never open your eyes again<br \/>\nyou never ever go<br \/>\nanywhere you are finished<br \/>\na lifeless bag of bones<br \/>\ntossed into the landfill<br \/>\nand covered up with stones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece is heading toward the cruellest place now in the world what some people do to animals all of this unfurled and its tantamount Hell on earth now and to evil everyday the digest comes and the victims are in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/07\/greece-a-dog-story-not-steeped-in-glory\/\">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":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824","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=9824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9828,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions\/9828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}