{"id":2043,"date":"2012-06-15T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2012-06-15T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:27:07","slug":"the-struggle-was-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-struggle-was-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"The struggle was too much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buttercups are up in force<br \/>\nAround my Cherry tree<br \/>\nTiny stalks seem able<br \/>\nTo withstand how it can be<br \/>\nThe British Summer<br \/>\napparently<br \/>\nprefers to remain lost<br \/>\nin grey skies<br \/>\nand a biting wind<br \/>\nwhich all adds to the cost<br \/>\nso many plants that struggle<br \/>\nto get a foothold<br \/>\non the mantle of creation<br \/>\nThey have gone<br \/>\nby the wayside<br \/>\nfeel their weakness<br \/>\nnot prepared for the fight<br \/>\nnot ready for the wind and rain<br \/>\nfrom its really powerful bite<br \/>\nthey wrestle with their being<br \/>\nbut fail in many ways<br \/>\nuncertain of the future<br \/>\nand so few sunny days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It feels more like winter in Britain this year <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-struggle-was-too-much\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","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=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}