{"id":1654,"date":"2012-05-20T08:11:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T08:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2012-05-20T16:47:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T16:47:15","slug":"the-yidaki-or-didgeridoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-yidaki-or-didgeridoo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yidaki or Didgeridoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yidaki<br \/>\nA poem by Rex Tyler (rex@cooksdelight.co.uk)<br \/>\nSource: www.cooksdelight.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>The breath of the bush<br \/>\nThe fire of the sun<br \/>\nThe beat of the heart<br \/>\nWhen the day is done<br \/>\nThe cry of the wind<br \/>\nFrom the bowels of the earth<br \/>\nThe Yidaki gives merit<br \/>\nTo all that life&#8217;s worth<\/p>\n<p>Its also now known<br \/>\nas the Didjeridoo<br \/>\na tree trunk that&#8217;s<br \/>\nhollowed by termites<br \/>\nfor you<br \/>\nbeautifully painted<br \/>\nand 2 metres long<br \/>\ncircular breathing<br \/>\nfrom lungs that are strong<\/p>\n<p>Eucalyptus is used or<br \/>\nStringy Bark Trees<br \/>\nThey select what they<br \/>\nfeel will make<br \/>\nsound that will please<br \/>\nIts the sound of Australia&#8217;s<br \/>\nCultural treasure<br \/>\nAboriginie&#8217;s know this<br \/>\nIt is hard to measure<\/p>\n<p>The great contribution<br \/>\nof their history<br \/>\nOn the land that was really<br \/>\naboriginie<br \/>\nWith freedom to roam<br \/>\nTheir sustainable ways<br \/>\nThey lived their part well<br \/>\nMost all of their days<\/p>\n<p>They never took more<br \/>\nThan they needed to live<br \/>\nTheir passion was constant<br \/>\nAnd how they did give<br \/>\nSo much to the land<br \/>\nTo the bush where they were<br \/>\nAnd the anthem of source<br \/>\nIs their eternal spur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aboriginie music is organic through and through it is the earth crying out as the vagaries of so called modern man continue to plunder and destroy <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-yidaki-or-didgeridoo\/\">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":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-and-the-epic-journeys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","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=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}