{"id":159,"date":"2011-11-14T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2011-11-14T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T21:45:00","slug":"besotted-with-fay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/besotted-with-fay\/","title":{"rendered":"Besotted with Fay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">The flat in North London<br \/>\nHer bike on the stairs<br \/>\nSharing the spiders webs<br \/>\nand some cats hairs<br \/>\n<!--more-->Circulars never been opened at all<br \/>\nA collection of bottles<br \/>\nstacked up by the wall<\/p>\n<p>Up in about 15 stairs<br \/>\nto her door<br \/>\nA small bamboo windchime<br \/>\nTwo Forty Four<br \/>\nA pioneer&#8217;s number<br \/>\nSo good for her here<br \/>\nI knocked and at once<br \/>\nFay did appear<\/p>\n<p>Some glorious picture&#8217;s<br \/>\nshe&#8217;d sketched all around<br \/>\nAnd Dear Mr Handel&#8217;s<br \/>\nwrap around sound<br \/>\nAnd the clutter of coffee beans<br \/>\nin her old mill<br \/>\nThe earthy Sumatran<br \/>\nI think,&#8230;. thats a skill<br \/>\nSlow percolation bubbling hot<br \/>\nPoured into coffee cups<br \/>\nmade on the spot<\/p>\n<p>That aroma!&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nI sat and I took it all in<br \/>\nPictured a rainforest<br \/>\nnot just a tin<br \/>\nof some corporate<br \/>\ngranules, from the UNFAIR TRADE<br \/>\nwhere souls are cajouled<br \/>\nand where cherries are sprayed<br \/>\nthat was Fay&#8217;s worth<br \/>\nshe cared very much<br \/>\nFor the growers, the land<br \/>\nshe seemed so in touch<\/p>\n<p>Equal Exchange<br \/>\nOrganically grown<br \/>\nDriven by love for the<br \/>\nwondrous unknown<br \/>\nfor those hard working very poor people<br \/>\nwho toil<br \/>\nin the heat, quite a feat<br \/>\nprotecting the soil!<\/p>\n<p>safeguarding our health<br \/>\nand environments too<br \/>\nWhilst the Corporate Fat Cats<br \/>\nContinue to screw<br \/>\nevery last drop out of them<br \/>\nand the soil<br \/>\nthis sort of behaviour<br \/>\nmakes my blood boil<\/p>\n<p>Besotted with Fay<br \/>\nI was right away<br \/>\nAnd hopefully she is with me<br \/>\nWe both do our best<br \/>\nwith consummate zest<br \/>\nPromoting trade more ethically<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flat in North London Her bike on the stairs Sharing the spiders webs and some cats hairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-poems","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}