{"id":37057,"date":"2018-06-10T18:47:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T18:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37057"},"modified":"2018-06-10T19:04:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T19:04:20","slug":"the-old-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/06\/the-old-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"The old gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>coming upon the old gate<br \/>\nWell-used and well worn<br \/>\nA portal to a secret garden<br \/>\nMade more beautiful by a dawn<br \/>\nSky above so peaceful<br \/>\nAn Expression Of love and care<br \/>\nThat Resolutely stands fast<br \/>\nIn the morning air<\/p>\n<p>Harbouring many lichens<br \/>\nAdorning the old wood<br \/>\nWith wild plants all around<br \/>\nThe picture&#8217;s  understood<br \/>\nBy those with eyes to wonder<br \/>\nThe unflagging efforts here<br \/>\nThe staunchness of the moment<br \/>\nCreates a tiny tear<\/p>\n<p>A soft and rolling simple pearl<br \/>\nMade to sparkle by the light<br \/>\nA certain credibility<br \/>\nA reason to invite<br \/>\nOthers to this secret place<br \/>\nEvidence of the fae<br \/>\nAnd honestly Perfection<br \/>\nIn the cool light of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Poem inspired by a post on a new friends page<br \/>\nEwa Oscarsdotte<\/p>\n<p>Its lovely to know you and be asked to be your friend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>coming upon the old gate Well-used and well worn A portal to a secret garden Made more beautiful by a dawn Sky above so peaceful An Expression Of love and care That Resolutely stands fast In the morning air Harbouring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/06\/the-old-gate\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37057","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=37057"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37062,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37057\/revisions\/37062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}