{"id":36474,"date":"2018-04-13T18:12:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T18:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=36474"},"modified":"2018-04-13T18:17:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T18:17:19","slug":"our-forgotten-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/04\/our-forgotten-people\/","title":{"rendered":"forgotten people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be forgotten as we are<br \/>\nLost souls in a soup<br \/>\nOf outback mediaocrity<br \/>\nKept out of  the loop<br \/>\nNo communication<br \/>\nLeft to rot and die<br \/>\nEach of us has one vote<br \/>\nBut someone tell me why<\/p>\n<p>I would put my cross by your name<br \/>\nWhen you never care for me<br \/>\nYou gave me years of violence<br \/>\nYour shadows yes I See<br \/>\nEqual rights you promised<br \/>\nAnd then took them away<br \/>\nWe heard the words of wisdom<br \/>\nAnd we witnessed the decay<\/p>\n<p>You plied us with your alcohol<br \/>\nOur spirits deadened fast<br \/>\nOverwhelmed our very soul<br \/>\nThe drama of the past<br \/>\nCaught up and fairly swallowed<br \/>\nUs<br \/>\nDrenched us all again<br \/>\nWeakened us our broken hearts<br \/>\nBeat still but invain<\/p>\n<p>Our culture and tradition<br \/>\nOur nomadic way to be<br \/>\nYou wrenched it from our very souls<br \/>\nWe lost our place and we<br \/>\nHave never ever found the footprint<br \/>\nThat we trod before<br \/>\nWe never can forgive you<br \/>\nAnd for us less isn&#8217;t more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be forgotten as we are Lost souls in a soup Of outback mediaocrity Kept out of the loop No communication Left to rot and die Each of us has one vote But someone tell me why I would put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/04\/our-forgotten-people\/\">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":[344,173,89,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-australia-and-the-epic-journeys","category-indigenous-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36474","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=36474"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36479,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36474\/revisions\/36479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}