{"id":15548,"date":"2014-04-10T22:35:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T22:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15548"},"modified":"2014-04-11T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T07:36:10","slug":"midway-atoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/04\/midway-atoll\/","title":{"rendered":"Midway Atoll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midway Atoll<\/p>\n<p>all we hear<\/p>\n<p>are cries of sea birds<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; font-size: 14px;\">in \u00a0dire fear<\/span><\/p>\n<p>the Albatross<\/p>\n<p>they pass away<\/p>\n<p>filled with jetsum<\/p>\n<p>from the bay<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>vomit of human unkind<\/p>\n<p>deaf and dumb and clearly blind<\/p>\n<p>reality had passed him by<\/p>\n<p>the birds now kick and slowly die<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>their guts filled up with this and that<\/p>\n<p>bits of plastic where we are at<\/p>\n<p>is somewhere close to<\/p>\n<p>god knows where<\/p>\n<p>the land where our plastic shit we share<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>its evil washes \u00a0far and wide<\/p>\n<p>it rolls in on every tide<\/p>\n<p>as seabirds take a shine to it<\/p>\n<p>thats right they die eating our shit<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>are we ashamed<\/p>\n<p>blamed are we<\/p>\n<p>for what is there catastrophe<\/p>\n<p>skeletons litter the drying sand<\/p>\n<p>we look down and can&#8217;t understand<\/p>\n<p>how death and pain and terror came<\/p>\n<p>and we just wouldnt take the blame<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Written for Elena *<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midway Atoll all we hear are cries of sea birds in \u00a0dire fear the Albatross they pass away filled with jetsum from the bay &nbsp; vomit of human unkind deaf and dumb and clearly blind reality had passed him by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/04\/midway-atoll\/\">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":[24,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems","category-sea-birds-and-bird-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15548","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=15548"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15561,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15548\/revisions\/15561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}