{"id":25448,"date":"2015-12-27T08:49:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T08:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25448"},"modified":"2015-12-27T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T08:53:02","slug":"antartica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/12\/antartica\/","title":{"rendered":"Antartica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unbelievable sky above<br \/>\nOf almost cornflower blue<br \/>\nIn this marvellous polar light<br \/>\nGreat ice bergs melting through<br \/>\nMyriad icicles dripping<br \/>\nGaping holes azure<br \/>\nA hostile place where diadems<br \/>\nSeemingly endure<\/p>\n<p>Tranquil floating ice rocks<br \/>\nIce sheets floating here<br \/>\nThe worlds largest desert beckons<br \/>\nIn waters bright and clear<br \/>\nUltra violet glaring is blinding<br \/>\nWild life they<br \/>\nThe blind seals and the penguins<br \/>\nWander off each day<\/p>\n<p>The temperatures are rising<br \/>\nAnd melting ice we see<br \/>\nThe west coasts bleeding profusely<br \/>\nNow into the sea<br \/>\nLow lying cities all around our world<br \/>\nMay soon be lost<br \/>\nSea levels rising dangerously<br \/>\nAt an enormous cost<\/p>\n<p>Large areas a melting<br \/>\nRocks being exposed<br \/>\nMoss and algae begin to grow<br \/>\nThis now  could have posed<br \/>\nSo many problems for us all<br \/>\nA greening is underway<br \/>\nIce core sampling tells us much<br \/>\nTells us soon we shall pay<\/p>\n<p>One positive are CFC&#8217;s<br \/>\nWhich the world has cut back on<br \/>\nThe ozone hole is reducing<br \/>\nIts may be  a time till its gone<br \/>\nBut its moving in the right direction<br \/>\nAnd  this could a case<br \/>\nA saviour in so many ways<br \/>\nFor the present human race<\/p>\n<p>The krill are clearly dying<br \/>\nAs the sea heats up they will<br \/>\nDisappear completely<br \/>\nThe penguin with their skill<br \/>\nWill have to find new diets<br \/>\nAnd we humans ought to try<br \/>\nAnd leave the Krill alone ourselves<br \/>\nFor otherwise they will<\/p>\n<p>Perish in the oceans<br \/>\nFor thats a Penguins meal<br \/>\nAnd whales too love their tastiness<br \/>\nFor them too it is real<br \/>\nMan gets his nutrition<br \/>\nFrom a variety so why<br \/>\nCome into the wild to steal the krill too<br \/>\nIt is high <\/p>\n<p>in nutrients and precious oils<br \/>\nBut the wild ones we deny<br \/>\nThem the food they were born to eat<br \/>\nUnderneath the sky<br \/>\nThe coldest driest windiest continent<br \/>\nOn this planet earth<br \/>\nAntartica is now shared science<br \/>\nReally it is worth<br \/>\nso much to the people<br \/>\nOn this precious land<br \/>\nFor Realising Antartica<br \/>\nHelps us understand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unbelievable sky above Of almost cornflower blue In this marvellous polar light Great ice bergs melting through Myriad icicles dripping Gaping holes azure A hostile place where diadems Seemingly endure Tranquil floating ice rocks Ice sheets floating here The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/12\/antartica\/\">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":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antartica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25448","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=25448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25452,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25448\/revisions\/25452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}