{"id":33051,"date":"2017-05-06T21:34:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T21:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=33051"},"modified":"2017-05-06T21:42:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T21:42:36","slug":"reed-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/05\/reed-beds\/","title":{"rendered":"Reed beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We miss much<br \/>\nIn the world below<br \/>\nOur feet, the waters edge<br \/>\nWhere many creatures live out their lives<br \/>\nPerhaps on a flank or ledge<br \/>\nIn a watery darkness<br \/>\nA dream or nightmare where<br \/>\nThe dawn of time is evident<br \/>\nAnd today i am going to share<\/p>\n<p>A glimpse below the surface<br \/>\nWhere the handsome pike does lie<br \/>\nPatient he is waiting quietly<br \/>\nWith a quite dark eye<br \/>\nLooking for his supper<br \/>\nA nice soft squidgy frog<br \/>\nWith bulbous eyes and far from wise<br \/>\nJust behind a log<\/p>\n<p>A predator of standing<br \/>\nStreamlined through and through<br \/>\nOne great lunge of energy<br \/>\nAnd the frog is gone to woo<br \/>\nA princess in an even darker place<br \/>\nThe great pikes gut<br \/>\nTo be pickled by the fishes juices<br \/>\nNow his mouth is shut<\/p>\n<p>The frogs have lost a member<br \/>\nWho didnt see it coming<br \/>\nNot  until that awful sound<br \/>\nOf a great big heart a drumming<br \/>\nThe slosh of flush and bluster<br \/>\nThe sucking sound as he<br \/>\nDescended into the fishes mouth<br \/>\nAnd never again would see<\/p>\n<p>Daylight on the surface<br \/>\nNor the dragon flies so blue<br \/>\nOne minute he was happy<br \/>\nThe next his life was through<br \/>\nMelting in the acidic juice<br \/>\nRolling that way and this<br \/>\nRubbing up against other clutter<br \/>\nAn event he would have chose to miss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We miss much In the world below Our feet, the waters edge Where many creatures live out their lives Perhaps on a flank or ledge In a watery darkness A dream or nightmare where The dawn of time is evident &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/05\/reed-beds\/\">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":[304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reed-beds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33051","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=33051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33056,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33051\/revisions\/33056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}