{"id":2140,"date":"2012-06-21T20:04:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T20:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2012-06-21T20:19:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T20:19:57","slug":"lord-coes-olympics-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/lord-coes-olympics-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what dreams are made of, or are they"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to know<br \/>\nhow Dear Lord Coe<br \/>\ncan imagine that we&#8217;ll see<br \/>\nThe greenest olympic&#8217;s ever<br \/>\nI listened so proudly<\/p>\n<p>But With sponsors like<br \/>\nDow Chemicals<br \/>\nand tragically BP<br \/>\nand Rio Tinto<br \/>\ntruly they are not<br \/>\nthe greenest three<\/p>\n<p>No! not by a long chalk<br \/>\nDow&#8217;s Agent Orange and<br \/>\nBhopal, just for starters<br \/>\nlives lost on the land<br \/>\ninnocent people suffered<br \/>\nWhilst Union Carbide<br \/>\nran<br \/>\non both these counts<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sorry Dow<br \/>\nI am not a fan<\/p>\n<p>BP saw the gulf coast<br \/>\nand the people and wild life<br \/>\ntorn a&#8217;sunder by it all<br \/>\nenvironmental strife<br \/>\nRio Tinto poisonings<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t believe my ears<br \/>\nto hear that these green co sponsors<br \/>\nHow their being, so endears<\/p>\n<p>For me I cannot, ever accept<br \/>\nfor evermore<br \/>\nhaving campaigned  for over 20 years<br \/>\nfor Bhopali&#8217;s and for sure<br \/>\nAgent orange decimated<br \/>\nthe forests that were green<br \/>\nand the massive footprint<br \/>\nleft behind<br \/>\nwas more or less obscene<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m sorry if he felt this<br \/>\nThe wonderful Lord Coe<br \/>\nWho ran some of the fastest miles<br \/>\nall those years ago<br \/>\nBut  I think he is mistaken<br \/>\nwhich makes for a sad day<br \/>\nfor with these sorts of co sponsors<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s not much left to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympics in my estimation could be really green but some of the co sponsors well lets say we will have to wait and see <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/lord-coes-olympics-dreams\/\">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":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topical-news-stories-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","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=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}