{"id":2484,"date":"2012-07-21T08:50:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T08:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2012-07-21T09:01:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T09:01:41","slug":"the-funeral-of-urmia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/the-funeral-of-urmia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Funeral of Urmia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a poignant disturbing<br \/>\nreflection I see<br \/>\nof people in black<br \/>\nlike angels to me<br \/>\nhow distress can create<br \/>\nsuch anguish and pain<br \/>\nsolace and grief<br \/>\nand a lasting refrain<\/p>\n<p>As Urmia shrinks<br \/>\nalmost, beyond belief<br \/>\nsuch numbness spreads<br \/>\nover us all<br \/>\na sort of narcosis<br \/>\nquietly protesting<br \/>\nthe Government<br \/>\nwon&#8217;t hear our call<\/p>\n<p>an apparent, stillness<br \/>\nspreads silently<br \/>\nsoulfully<br \/>\nover the land<br \/>\na manifestation of<br \/>\npurity formed<br \/>\npensive, we do understand<\/p>\n<p>absorbed in the moment<br \/>\nthis cortege of  souls<br \/>\nan internal requiem<br \/>\nplays<br \/>\nit moves me to witness<br \/>\nthis scene, I must say<br \/>\nwhich will stay with<br \/>\nme all of my days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funeral of Urmia the once beautiful salt lake in Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/the-funeral-of-urmia\/\">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-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","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=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}