{"id":233,"date":"2012-03-30T11:06:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T19:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=233"},"modified":"2012-06-30T11:06:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T19:06:58","slug":"poem-for-the-alf-twas-the-night-in-the-fur-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2012\/03\/30\/poem-for-the-alf-twas-the-night-in-the-fur-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem for the ALF Twas the night in the fur farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twas the night in the fur farm<br \/>\nIn my prison I lie<br \/>\nDeprived of freedom<br \/>\nNo one heard my cry<\/p>\n<p>I used to live in the forest<br \/>\nWhere I&#8217;d roam wild and free<br \/>\nAnd do all the things<br \/>\nThat came natural to me<\/p>\n<p>One day I was roaming<br \/>\nIn a trap I got caught<br \/>\nI tried to get loose<br \/>\nIt hurt as I fought<\/p>\n<p>I saw a human coming<br \/>\nI thought he would help<br \/>\nIn a cage I was thrown<br \/>\nIn pain I did yelp<\/p>\n<p>The next thing I knew<br \/>\nI was enclosed and confined<br \/>\nWith many other animals<br \/>\nAll of my kind<\/p>\n<p>The Humans here are cruel<br \/>\nAnd very inhumane<br \/>\nThey electrocute our genitals<br \/>\nAnd cause agonizing pain<\/p>\n<p>They beat us to death<br \/>\nOr skin us alive<br \/>\nAll for our fur<br \/>\nSo their business will thrive<\/p>\n<p>One very dark night<br \/>\nI heard someone creep by<br \/>\nIt was a very large human<br \/>\nWas it my turn to die?<\/p>\n<p>He was dresses all in black<br \/>\nFrom his head to his toe<br \/>\nHis eyes I could see<br \/>\nTheir kindness did show<\/p>\n<p>He opened each cage<br \/>\nAs he walked down the hall<br \/>\nThen said \u201cdash away,<br \/>\ndash away, dash away all\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I ran out of my prison<br \/>\nAnd off in the night<br \/>\nAs I turned around<br \/>\nHe was nowhere in sight<\/p>\n<p>Some human&#8217;s say he&#8217;s a terrorist<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t believe that you see<br \/>\nThis man is a hero<br \/>\nHe set me free<\/p>\n<p>The bad humans are<br \/>\nThose who make us bleed<br \/>\nJust for a profit<br \/>\nMoney and greed<\/p>\n<p>And those who wear fur<br \/>\nThink they have good taste<br \/>\nYour&#8217; just as cruel<br \/>\nCarcasses around your waist<\/p>\n<p>Next time you go shopping<br \/>\nTo buy something to wear<br \/>\nMake sure is has no animal<br \/>\nSkin, fur or hair.<\/p>\n<p>Written By Liz Jacobelly<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:mslizann@san.rr.com\">mslizann@san.rr.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twas the night in the fur farm In my prison I lie Deprived of freedom No one heard my cry I used to live in the forest Where I&#8217;d roam wild and free And do all the things That came natural to me One day I was roaming In a trap I got caught I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2012\/03\/30\/poem-for-the-alf-twas-the-night-in-the-fur-farm\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}