{"id":41553,"date":"2019-06-15T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=41553"},"modified":"2019-06-15T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T15:11:26","slug":"damsel-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/06\/damsel-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Damsel fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring watch fly<br \/>\nSeen by an eye<br \/>\nThe epitome of gentleness<br \/>\nDelicate it influences<br \/>\nBeing there<br \/>\nI must confess<br \/>\nA blissful blush of blameless softness<br \/>\nA nymph of high regard<br \/>\nWith such charisma and such charm<br \/>\nIts wonder wasnt hard<br \/>\nTo realise<br \/>\nA genuine and delightful<br \/>\nSoul to see<br \/>\nA faerylike creative force<br \/>\nIn its own field naturally<br \/>\nSkating on the surface<br \/>\nOf a millpond in the Spring<br \/>\nA spotless brush with magick<br \/>\nAnd each rainbow wing<br \/>\nBreathes a mere morality<br \/>\nAnd a wonderful embrace<br \/>\nA maiden flight to paradise<br \/>\nWith the utmost grace<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Chris Packham&#8217;s 21 seconds of magic<\/p>\n<p>Watching a elegant fly<\/p>\n<p>With Michaela Strachan on SpringWatch <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring watch fly Seen by an eye The epitome of gentleness Delicate it influences Being there I must confess A blissful blush of blameless softness A nymph of high regard With such charisma and such charm Its wonder wasnt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/06\/damsel-fly\/\">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":[25,218,345],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethereal-poems","category-monarch-butterflies-and-other-insects","category-mongolia-and-nomadic-herdsman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41553","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=41553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41555,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41553\/revisions\/41555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}