{"id":20578,"date":"2015-04-06T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20578"},"modified":"2015-04-06T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T15:23:36","slug":"get-dad-out-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/04\/get-dad-out-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Get dad out in the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mowers and cutters and machinery<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s mini logging habitat mean to me<br \/>\nAttacking nature improving the grass<br \/>\nIgnorance and total unawareness what arse<br \/>\nCan expect plants and wild flowers<br \/>\nTo grow and be tough<br \/>\nWhen we sliced off their heads<br \/>\nAnd then we  just stuff<br \/>\nThem on top of each other<br \/>\nInto the green bin<br \/>\nScrape off the moss and the weeds<br \/>\nWhat a sin<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not reality<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s nonsense in fact<br \/>\nThey tell us its actually how to react<br \/>\nLook into the forest what do we see<br \/>\nGreat natural pattering balance and we<br \/>\nGo out and look at it<br \/>\nBut back at home<br \/>\nWe tear off we cut off<br \/>\nWe bloody well comb<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not just the wind<br \/>\nNor the hail nor the snow<br \/>\nBut all the machines<br \/>\nAnd what have we to show<br \/>\nShort back and sides<br \/>\nThe odd mole hill or two<br \/>\nAnd, expensive flowers<br \/>\nTo show off the dew<\/p>\n<p>I only went out to recycle met the neighbour sweating his heart out<br \/>\nScraping the lawn of moss and this odesprang into my awareness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mowers and cutters and machinery It&#8217;s mini logging habitat mean to me Attacking nature improving the grass Ignorance and total unawareness what arse Can expect plants and wild flowers To grow and be tough When we sliced off their heads &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/04\/get-dad-out-in-the-garden\/\">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-20578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578","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=20578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20580,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578\/revisions\/20580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}