{"id":3505,"date":"2012-10-06T21:54:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T21:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2012-10-06T21:54:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T21:54:53","slug":"what-i-saw-in-ashridge-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/10\/what-i-saw-in-ashridge-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What I saw in Ashridge today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crimson holly berries<br \/>\nthe golden bracken stems<br \/>\nWillows greenest pillows<br \/>\nBirch leaves look like gems<br \/>\ncascading and revealing<br \/>\nthe joy of partnering wind<br \/>\nthe lovely dance of Autumn<br \/>\nhow Nature&#8217;s underpinned<br \/>\nit all, with true reflection<br \/>\na simple forest scene<br \/>\nAshridge looked resplendent<br \/>\nAnd Each day, this week I&#8217;ve been<br \/>\nobserving how the colours<br \/>\nand light festoon and say<br \/>\nto anybody&#8217;s eyes that notice<br \/>\nWinter&#8217;s on its way<\/p>\n<p>in the darkly hollows<br \/>\nwhere rain had fallen fast<br \/>\nRooks, were basically washing<br \/>\nclearly they aghast<br \/>\nat how warm, the sun had made it<br \/>\nand so they played away<br \/>\nwater splashing everywhere<br \/>\na right old true display<br \/>\nof who cares<br \/>\nno ones watching<br \/>\nthey did not, account for me<br \/>\nI&#8217;d been parked there for<br \/>\n3 hours<br \/>\npart of the scenery<br \/>\nso they showed me what they get<br \/>\nup to<br \/>\nwhen they have the where for all<br \/>\nI could see that Rooks<br \/>\nlike most of us<br \/>\nalso have a ball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what you see in the forest if you pretend you are not there <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/10\/what-i-saw-in-ashridge-today\/\">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":[24,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505","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=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3506,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}