{"id":12234,"date":"2013-11-16T12:14:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T12:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12234"},"modified":"2013-11-16T12:18:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T12:18:45","slug":"listen-to-the-first-people-will-you-you-might-learn-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/listen-to-the-first-people-will-you-you-might-learn-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the first people will you( you might learn something)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silence was a word<br \/>\nfew had adopted<br \/>\nanyone who knows me<br \/>\nknows that I<br \/>\nam seldom silent<br \/>\nthats because I have a lot to say<br \/>\nmaybe I should be silent<br \/>\nanyway<\/p>\n<p>but we must learn to realise<br \/>\nthat Nature has a way<br \/>\nof creating all we ever need<br \/>\nreally all we can say<br \/>\nis thank you, and the first people<br \/>\nwere good at that for they<br \/>\nlived out in the open<br \/>\nand their gods knew the way<\/p>\n<p>when white man lost his bottle<br \/>\nand crushed them in the ground<br \/>\nthe environment was pristine<br \/>\nand that was all around<br \/>\nthe sparkling streams<br \/>\nthe flourishing fish<br \/>\nthe wild game everywhere<br \/>\nthe grasses and the wild flowers<br \/>\nand the wild fruits all did share<\/p>\n<p>the first people understood so much<br \/>\nbecause they were alive<br \/>\ncloser to their mother<br \/>\nthats how they did survive<br \/>\nnot all decked out in concrete<br \/>\nwith plastic flowers and trees<br \/>\nand GM foods and clonal broods<br \/>\nand a dying race of Bees<\/p>\n<p>they understood how nature worked<br \/>\nand worked with her and they<br \/>\nhelped her there was no destruction<br \/>\nand arrogance at play<br \/>\nwe should have learned a great deal<br \/>\nfrom them<br \/>\nbut we chose to say<br \/>\nwe know bloody everything<br \/>\nand you savages can pay<\/p>\n<p>and still now the vast corporates<br \/>\nsnub the first people, who<br \/>\nknow more about the natural world<br \/>\nthan the whole monsanto crew<br \/>\nthe arrogance the ugliness the vileness<br \/>\nits the trait<br \/>\nof banksters and their hoodlum friends<br \/>\nto open every gate<\/p>\n<p>and let out all the goodness<br \/>\nto scatter here and there<br \/>\nto be eaten up by horror<br \/>\nand the squalid dark despair<br \/>\nthat comes from sick controllers<br \/>\nwho haven&#8217;t got a clue<br \/>\nwho know nothing about true balance<br \/>\nand what we all should do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silence was a word few had adopted anyone who knows me knows that I am seldom silent thats because I have a lot to say maybe I should be silent anyway but we must learn to realise that Nature has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/listen-to-the-first-people-will-you-you-might-learn-something\/\">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":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234","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=12234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12236,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234\/revisions\/12236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}