{"id":34528,"date":"2017-11-07T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T13:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=34528"},"modified":"2017-11-07T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:03:17","slug":"lichen-long-lived-and-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/11\/lichen-long-lived-and-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"Lichen long lived and silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gravestones and standing stones<br \/>\nOf considerable age<br \/>\nAttract, it appears<br \/>\nThe lichens who gauge<br \/>\nSedentary staging<br \/>\nA life force as such<br \/>\nAlgae and cyanbacteria<br \/>\nMuch<br \/>\nAmong living filaments<br \/>\nOf fungi we see<br \/>\nSymbiotic relationships<br \/>\nThats where they be<\/p>\n<p>At Rollrights the great stones<br \/>\nIn Their crevices I<br \/>\nSaw bright green cushions<br \/>\nTheir cortex high<br \/>\nA photobiant layer emerging to show<br \/>\nA softness and a brilliance<br \/>\nAnd peculiar glow<\/p>\n<p>I suspect they are light<br \/>\nFor the land where the fae<br \/>\nEmerge in the darkness<br \/>\nAnd are seen to play<br \/>\nAttracted by moles who<br \/>\nBuild their hills high<br \/>\nGelatinous mosses<br \/>\nThat point to the sky<\/p>\n<p>Often they are ancient<br \/>\nThe first living things<br \/>\nEtched onto bare rock<br \/>\nWhich is what brings<br \/>\nThe eye to the  crevices<br \/>\nIt is the air<br \/>\nAnd a lack of pollution<br \/>\nThat they need to share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gravestones and standing stones Of considerable age Attract, it appears The lichens who gauge Sedentary staging A life force as such Algae and cyanbacteria Much Among living filaments Of fungi we see Symbiotic relationships Thats where they be At Rollrights &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/11\/lichen-long-lived-and-silent\/\">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":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34528","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=34528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34530,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34528\/revisions\/34530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}