{"id":31669,"date":"2017-01-06T12:57:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T12:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=31669"},"modified":"2017-01-06T13:04:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T13:04:19","slug":"yellowstone-pika-colonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/yellowstone-pika-colonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone &#8211; pika colonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colonies of pika run<br \/>\nThe gauntlet in the frosty sun<br \/>\nCoyote hawk and weasel might<br \/>\nLike a take away at night<\/p>\n<p>But pika know a thing or two<br \/>\nThey are very able and all day through<br \/>\nAre on the lookout for bandits who<br \/>\nMight threaten them and what they do<\/p>\n<p>They are very round and have no tail<br \/>\nTheir voice  is a bleat like a lamb their trail<br \/>\nIs over and through the mountain rocks<br \/>\nSo nimble and able to take the knocks<\/p>\n<p>With temperatures rising these little souls<br \/>\nAre feeling the pressure in their holes<br \/>\nThey of course live the winter through<br \/>\nThey dont hibernate all that they do<\/p>\n<p>Is sleep and eat and dream all day<br \/>\nThat it stays cold for there is no way<br \/>\nThey can take the heat so each day they climb<br \/>\nHigher and higher running out of time<\/p>\n<p>Almost at the top of the mountains they<br \/>\nIf it gets any hotter up there they may<br \/>\nLeap into space the old lemmings trait<br \/>\nFor with temperatures rising they now cannot wait<\/p>\n<p>Their Extinction apparently is likely to be<br \/>\nTheir only way out so a real tragedy<br \/>\nGAIA will come to their aid I am sure<br \/>\nThe tragedy being that man will ignore<br \/>\nOne little furry beast up in the sky<br \/>\nAnd when it comes to his turn he will deny<\/p>\n<p>It was ever his fault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colonies of pika run The gauntlet in the frosty sun Coyote hawk and weasel might Like a take away at night But pika know a thing or two They are very able and all day through Are on the lookout &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/yellowstone-pika-colonies\/\">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":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pika-colonies-and-the-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31669","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=31669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31673,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31669\/revisions\/31673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}