{"id":38714,"date":"2018-09-19T10:05:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T10:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=38714"},"modified":"2018-09-19T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T10:20:10","slug":"38714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/38714\/","title":{"rendered":"My inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like sharks the wolves have suffered<br \/>\nLong and hard from humans who<br \/>\nHave ignorantly labelled them killers<br \/>\nIts what the  arrogant do<br \/>\nYes apex predation but god like ceremony<br \/>\nThey manage the ecosystem<br \/>\nAnd do it beautifully<\/p>\n<p>Farley Mowatt in the sixties<br \/>\nBreathed some life back, he<br \/>\nPerhaps took it a bit too  far<br \/>\nIn &#8220;Never cry wolf&#8221; we see<br \/>\nHumans missing the point with wolves<br \/>\nAnd sharks<br \/>\nAnd therefore they<br \/>\nHave suffered really badly<br \/>\nRight up till today<\/p>\n<p>It was the indigenous cultures<br \/>\nAncient In their prime<br \/>\nGiving Reason to the dual aspect<br \/>\nThat happened over time<br \/>\nThe problem was that fiction writers<br \/>\nNot being wholly straight<br \/>\nPortraying them as &#8220;baddies&#8221;<br \/>\nWas a most ignoble trait<\/p>\n<p>An arrogant rebuttal of what<br \/>\nWas a true acount<br \/>\nThe problem was with so many stories<br \/>\nThey really did amount<br \/>\nTo a massive wave of untruths<br \/>\nAbout the  animals way<br \/>\nOf acting out their  godly task<br \/>\nTo lead the Canidae<\/p>\n<p>Imbolc is a sabbat and<br \/>\nA time when wolves do mate<br \/>\nBetween January and the month of March<br \/>\nWhen sheep give birth and sate<br \/>\nTheir lambs with milk a plenty<br \/>\nThe celtic goddess she<br \/>\nCelebrates this period<br \/>\nWhen the sheep a lambing be<\/p>\n<p>The goddess Brigid<br \/>\nShe is<br \/>\nthe goddess of poetry<br \/>\nShe is the goddess Whom I think<br \/>\nOf   And do so constantly<br \/>\nIn my role as a druid bard<br \/>\nI feel her healing force<br \/>\nThe power really of imbolc<br \/>\nA truly inspiring source<\/p>\n<p>The white wolf and Dear<br \/>\nMaria<br \/>\nA lovely friend to know<br \/>\nWho  inspires me with her pictures<br \/>\nAnd gives me time to show<br \/>\nOther forms of poetry<br \/>\nBeyond the subjects I<br \/>\nMajor in now  daily<br \/>\nWhich is really why<\/p>\n<p>I so love to see them<br \/>\nAnd try and repond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like sharks the wolves have suffered Long and hard from humans who Have ignorantly labelled them killers Its what the arrogant do Yes apex predation but god like ceremony They manage the ecosystem And do it beautifully Farley Mowatt in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/38714\/\">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":[200,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft","category-wolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38714","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=38714"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38721,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38714\/revisions\/38721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}