{"id":1016,"date":"2012-01-27T17:25:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T17:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2012-01-27T17:25:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T17:25:22","slug":"carbonated-soft-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/carbonated-soft-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbonated soft drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Carbonated soft drinks<br \/>\nare now everywhere<br \/>\nFrom the Himalayan Hill Towns<br \/>\nto the sea<br \/>\nAs high as you can go<br \/>\namongst the wondrous lands of snow<br \/>\nDown to the River Napa<br \/>\nwhere the Amazon<br \/>\ndoes flow<br \/>\nInto a mighty dragon<br \/>\nand cascada&#8217;s of pure white<br \/>\nTo the Andes where the<br \/>\nCondor glides all day<br \/>\nAnd Any place you visit<br \/>\nCola&#8217;s there al&#8217;right<br \/>\nTo dissolve your tooth enamel<br \/>\nwe all pay<br \/>\nA lot,<br \/>\nfor what is a couple of gulps of acid<br \/>\nLaced<br \/>\nwith aspartame, the stuff that is supposed to make you high,<br \/>\nPhosphoric acid obesity and taste<br \/>\nThirst quenching water turned into a cocktail<br \/>\n20% or so in VAT, and an aluminum can that lasts a thousands years in some landfill site<br \/>\nthere it will be.<br \/>\nAnd it all came from Bauxite torn from forests green<br \/>\nThe heart and lungs were made to ache<br \/>\nto fuel the great machine<br \/>\nThe environment, the animals and the people<br \/>\nall get quite a low mark on the scale<br \/>\nIn essence for the water used and the enormous amounts of energy<br \/>\nIt really is a disappointing Tale<span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water is being taken all over the world to process into carbonated water, a soft drink often laced with aspartame and massive acidity.Governments take their 20 % or so and its is sold to our children the world over. <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/carbonated-soft-drinks\/\">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":[30,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-poems","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","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=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}