{"id":3290,"date":"2012-09-27T09:51:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T09:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2012-09-27T09:51:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T09:51:51","slug":"urmia-lake-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/urmia-lake-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Urmia Lake in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why Governments do<br \/>\nwhat they do<br \/>\nonly Time<br \/>\nwill tell, and its Hell<br \/>\nand its one awful<br \/>\nclimb<br \/>\nout of the beautiful lake<br \/>\nit once was<br \/>\nto a vast salty plain<br \/>\nUrmia because<\/p>\n<p>poor judgement and less<br \/>\nthought on what could go<br \/>\nwrong<br \/>\nallowed the presumption<br \/>\nand so the great throng<br \/>\nwas silenced by threats<br \/>\nand by subsequent power<br \/>\nand Urmia dies in a vast<br \/>\nsalty shower<\/p>\n<p>its creatures are suffering<br \/>\ndeath and destruction<br \/>\nthe people around are<br \/>\nfeeling the suction<br \/>\ngripping their spirit<br \/>\nsucking their soul<br \/>\nwhat the Government does<br \/>\nin its solitary role<\/p>\n<p>in the case of Urmia has been<br \/>\na sad thing<br \/>\nwhoever brought forward<br \/>\nthese damned dams did bring<br \/>\na Natural resource very much<br \/>\nto its knees<br \/>\ntoying with nature<br \/>\nan un winnable tease<\/p>\n<p>Many will suffer<br \/>\nthe vagaries that<br \/>\nMen do to others<br \/>\nand in essence not bat<br \/>\nan eyelid of care<br \/>\nfor the spirits we lose<br \/>\nfor the long term suffering<br \/>\nof course they refuse<\/p>\n<p>to admit how they erred<br \/>\nbut one day they will be<br \/>\nlost to the world<br \/>\nthemselves tragically<br \/>\nUrmia may die<br \/>\nin the wink of an eye<br \/>\nbut eventually man<br \/>\nwill then see<br \/>\nhow foolish he was<br \/>\nreally because<br \/>\nwe should just<br \/>\nlet Nature be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urmia once a natural world of beauty now a salt flat that will have serious implications for all <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/urmia-lake-in-iran\/\">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-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","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=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3291,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions\/3291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}