{"id":34173,"date":"2017-10-03T12:01:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T12:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=34173"},"modified":"2017-10-03T12:14:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T12:14:02","slug":"sunderban-and-its-mangroves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/10\/sunderban-and-its-mangroves\/","title":{"rendered":"a glimpse of the  mangroves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine awhile<br \/>\nThe great mass of rivers<br \/>\nAll carrying vast waste<br \/>\nDown into the sea<br \/>\nPassing the mangroves<br \/>\nAnd leaving  debris<br \/>\nAs Terribly smelly<br \/>\nAs it could ever be<\/p>\n<p>All this stagnation<br \/>\nThe stench is colossal<br \/>\nAerial rootlets mud driven<br \/>\nThey<br \/>\nThe silt levels rising<br \/>\nIts hardly surprising<br \/>\nIn the heat of the sun<br \/>\nWhat is their to say<\/p>\n<p>Forests of mangroves<br \/>\nStraddle and cling<br \/>\nTo the land mass<br \/>\nAnd evidently slowly they bring<br \/>\nA strength to the coastline<br \/>\nA new habitat<br \/>\nFor  Royal Bengal Tigers<br \/>\nTo show where they are at<\/p>\n<p>A sweep of tan striped and ready<br \/>\nTo leap<br \/>\nCool in repose it had chosen<br \/>\nthe deep<br \/>\nDark olive waters to peacefully lie<br \/>\nUnder the branches wondering why<br \/>\nIts private moment<br \/>\nBecame widely seen<br \/>\nBy the click of the camera man&#8217;s<br \/>\nProwess to lean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine awhile The great mass of rivers All carrying vast waste Down into the sea Passing the mangroves And leaving debris As Terribly smelly As it could ever be All this stagnation The stench is colossal Aerial rootlets mud driven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/10\/sunderban-and-its-mangroves\/\">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":[249,274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees","category-trees-our-silent-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34173","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=34173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34178,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34173\/revisions\/34178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}