{"id":12628,"date":"2013-12-01T20:58:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T20:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12628"},"modified":"2013-12-01T21:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T21:00:43","slug":"a-glimpse-of-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/a-glimpse-of-the-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"a glimpse of the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter and the violence starts<br \/>\nthe ice and snow that&#8217;s breaks some hearts<br \/>\ngreat tidal waves of thrusting snow<br \/>\nfollow the winds where ere they go<br \/>\nMale Polar Bears are forced to be<br \/>\nplodding around on the frozen sea<br \/>\nthis terrible weather takes its toll<br \/>\nits will cut and freeze just any soul<\/p>\n<p>the female she will find somewhere<br \/>\nand build a soft snow nest and share<br \/>\nhopeful that the winds will bring<br \/>\nmore snow and she can be trusting<br \/>\ndig down deep and have her young<br \/>\nand truthfully remain among<\/p>\n<p>great single specks of black now rise<br \/>\nupwards straight into the skies<br \/>\nmillions of Eiders they must go<br \/>\nor freeze up if they stay below<br \/>\nsome may try it the gamble will<br \/>\nnot pay off for the ice will spill<br \/>\ndownwards as it always does<br \/>\nand those who didn&#8217;t won&#8217;t fill the buzz<br \/>\nthey will be frozen where they lay<br \/>\nhemmed in by the encroaching play<br \/>\nthe icy hand that will crush them flat<br \/>\nlike a very thick and engaging mat<\/p>\n<p>above us really very high<br \/>\n100 miles up in the sky<br \/>\nthe solar winds the magnetic poles<br \/>\ndancing lights and colourful souls<br \/>\nthe northern lights ripple and sway<br \/>\nproviding the light this winters day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter and the violence starts the ice and snow that&#8217;s breaks some hearts great tidal waves of thrusting snow follow the winds where ere they go Male Polar Bears are forced to be plodding around on the frozen sea this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/a-glimpse-of-the-arctic\/\">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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628","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=12628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12633,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628\/revisions\/12633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}