{"id":2883,"date":"2012-08-31T22:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T22:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2012-08-31T22:00:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T22:00:52","slug":"a-tortured-sage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/a-tortured-sage\/","title":{"rendered":"A tortured sage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old, thats me<br \/>\nwith a yearning for<br \/>\na heart I met<br \/>\nin Ecuador<br \/>\nThe years have passed<br \/>\nand in an age<br \/>\nThe book of life<br \/>\nis an open page<br \/>\nthat holds the spirit<br \/>\nof the age<br \/>\nThe spirit of a<br \/>\ntortured sage<\/p>\n<p>Old, thats me<br \/>\nwith a yearning for<br \/>\na heart that<br \/>\nbeats in Ecuador<br \/>\na gal<br \/>\na child<br \/>\ncompared to me<br \/>\nwho is, wild<br \/>\nas wild as<br \/>\nshe can be<br \/>\nThe book of life is<br \/>\nan open page<br \/>\nThat hold the spirit of the<br \/>\nage<br \/>\nAnd a spirit of a Tortured<br \/>\nSage<\/p>\n<p>From all the sad<br \/>\nembittered strife<br \/>\nThat kills the soul<br \/>\nand ends true life<br \/>\nOld, thats me<br \/>\nwith a yearning for<br \/>\na heart<br \/>\nthat beats in Ecuador<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t imagine<br \/>\nyouth but I<br \/>\nknow at last the<br \/>\nquestion why?<br \/>\nThe book of life is an<br \/>\nopen page<br \/>\nThat holds the spirit<br \/>\nof the age<br \/>\nAnd the Spirit<br \/>\nof a Tortured Sage<br \/>\nWho may die in Ecuador<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As rugged as the day is long listen to the Andean song and walk the great volcanic path to heaven <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/a-tortured-sage\/\">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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","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=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}