{"id":1776,"date":"2012-05-23T22:06:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T22:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2012-05-23T22:09:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T22:09:26","slug":"come-see-the-sunset-from-the-ghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/05\/come-see-the-sunset-from-the-ghan\/","title":{"rendered":"Come see the sunset from the Ghan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunset from the Ghan<br \/>\noffers much for you to see<br \/>\nthe hordes of Eucalyptus dancing<br \/>\nmerrily<br \/>\na golden halo sinks to the horizon<br \/>\nand lets fly<br \/>\nthe expanse of darkness, we know<br \/>\nas the night sky<br \/>\nclosing in, preparing to<br \/>\npull its blinds down tight<br \/>\nfor hours the bush will disappear<br \/>\nuntil the morning light<\/p>\n<p>will it really disappear?<br \/>\nwhat happens when it does<br \/>\nThe Ghan continues onwards<br \/>\nwith its real eternal buzz<br \/>\nThe gold and platignum<br \/>\ntravellers will bed down and<br \/>\n dream<br \/>\nof a world outside<br \/>\nthe rail tracks<br \/>\ncloser than it would seem<\/p>\n<p>And Kangaroo class travellers<br \/>\nsat up in their seats<br \/>\nwill hear the clatter of<br \/>\nwheels on rails<br \/>\nand hear their own heart beats<br \/>\nFor inside with the shutterss down<br \/>\nwhere Ghan&#8217;s the only sound<br \/>\na dozen or so sleepy heads<br \/>\nand a rocking train just drowned<br \/>\nany other sounds<br \/>\nthe night may bring to bear on you<br \/>\nYes perhaps a clap of thunder<br \/>\nor an angry kangaroo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More from aboard the Ghan <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/05\/come-see-the-sunset-from-the-ghan\/\">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-1776","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\/1776","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=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}