{"id":41968,"date":"2019-08-13T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T16:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=41968"},"modified":"2019-08-13T17:46:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:46:30","slug":"rudston-monolith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/08\/rudston-monolith\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudston Monolith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The devil supposed to have<br \/>\nJust left it there<br \/>\nA 40 ton gritstone<br \/>\nFrom Clayton aware<br \/>\nSomehow it got to<br \/>\nRudston and we think<br \/>\nGlacial erratic<br \/>\nYes Possibly<br \/>\nA Norman church erected after<br \/>\nThe standing stone<br \/>\nBiggest around<br \/>\nNo where in Britain<br \/>\nCan you find one larger<br \/>\nAnd a dinosaur print<br \/>\nOn the face has been found<\/p>\n<p>an old wives tale perhaps<br \/>\nBut clearly we see<br \/>\nThe tallest of monoliths<br \/>\nBigger by far And it is standing free<br \/>\nInside this old churchyard<br \/>\nEarly Bronze Age<br \/>\nWith skulls at its base<br \/>\nSo Stukely did gauge<br \/>\nIt must have been sacred<br \/>\nThis land before<br \/>\nThe church was erected<br \/>\nOf that he was sure<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a breath taking sight<br \/>\nAt the break of the day<br \/>\nStanding Serene<br \/>\nIn its quite sacred way<br \/>\nA cursus it could be<br \/>\nChalk lines run straight<br \/>\nA Neolithic games site<br \/>\nSo possibly great<\/p>\n<p>Marking the point<br \/>\nWhere the winners might stand<br \/>\nA ceremonial marker<br \/>\nThere on the land<br \/>\nMystics and druids<br \/>\nAnd pagans agree<br \/>\nIt is first rate<br \/>\nStanding remarkably<br \/>\nStraight all these years<br \/>\nThroughout so much of time<br \/>\nThe rain and the snow and the<br \/>\nSun,  Watch it climb<br \/>\nTo shine on the surface<br \/>\nDespite what you hear<br \/>\nIt does feel divine<br \/>\nAnytime of the year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The devil supposed to have Just left it there A 40 ton gritstone From Clayton aware Somehow it got to Rudston and we think Glacial erratic Yes Possibly A Norman church erected after The standing stone Biggest around No where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/08\/rudston-monolith\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41968","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=41968"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41974,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41968\/revisions\/41974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}