{"id":20116,"date":"2015-02-16T14:41:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20116"},"modified":"2015-02-16T19:34:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T19:34:18","slug":"ancestral-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/02\/ancestral-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the kingdom of the totem<br \/>\nLies the river near the Gade<br \/>\nWhere the rue and comfrey flourish<br \/>\nAnd a feral cat brigade<br \/>\nSent forth a Viking protege<br \/>\nA Maine Coon grouping who<br \/>\nLearned their craft<br \/>\nIn the ancient draught<br \/>\nAs mousers tended to<\/p>\n<p>Living in the forests<br \/>\nAmongst the tall pine trees<br \/>\nWith long back legs for climbing<br \/>\nAnd such cures and prophecies<br \/>\nThe Rowan sustains life<br \/>\nThe elder and the sloe<br \/>\nSuch magical power is with us<br \/>\nNow where ere we go<\/p>\n<p>I live within the valley<br \/>\nWhere the boscombe copses fly<br \/>\nWe roam the banks where the watercress<br \/>\nAs green as green doth lie<br \/>\nBrocklestone is the village<br \/>\nWhere the red kites dart and be<br \/>\nObservant such  illusive hunters<br \/>\nThe warrior,faerie<\/p>\n<p>Bagos is the name my mother gave<br \/>\nMe from her heart<br \/>\nI have a son his name is Bear<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s a big boy and we start<br \/>\nOur journey really every day<br \/>\nInto the forest where<br \/>\nThe deer the owl and tHe rabbit<br \/>\nSearch out the bygul fair<\/p>\n<p>The nectar of the ancients<br \/>\nThe comb of yesteryear<br \/>\nWe faeries are together<br \/>\nWe do not ever fear<br \/>\nThe consequence of far away<br \/>\nBeyond the moon&#8217;s gold sphere<\/p>\n<p>I sleep upon the high chair<br \/>\nAnd gaze out out through the glass<br \/>\nAll that fearsome traffic<br \/>\nThat continually does pass<br \/>\nMousing is a pastime<br \/>\nA throwback to the days<br \/>\nWhen images were behind us<br \/>\nIn so many ways<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the kingdom of the totem Lies the river near the Gade Where the rue and comfrey flourish And a feral cat brigade Sent forth a Viking protege A Maine Coon grouping who Learned their craft In the ancient draught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/02\/ancestral-roots\/\">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":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20116","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=20116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20125,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20116\/revisions\/20125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}