{"id":4204,"date":"2012-12-12T20:13:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T20:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4204"},"modified":"2012-12-12T20:13:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T20:13:12","slug":"the-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The twinkle of fairy lights<br \/>\non a pine tree<br \/>\nminus its roots<br \/>\na shame<br \/>\nits a plea<br \/>\nof mine, that the growers<br \/>\ndo not saw the roots<br \/>\nfor what ever reason<br \/>\nI see them as brutes<\/p>\n<p>the trees torn from mother earth<br \/>\nminus their roots<br \/>\nshoved into a pot<br \/>\nto perish, it suits<br \/>\nthose growers and householders<br \/>\nto watch and smile<br \/>\nas Christmas festivities<br \/>\nsoon reconcile<\/p>\n<p>the gradual fading away<br \/>\nof the tree<br \/>\nwhich is tinselled and baubled<br \/>\nand left tragically<br \/>\nlit up with multi-phased computer lights<br \/>\nEdison I&#8217;m sure had them in his sights<br \/>\nand there the tree sits<br \/>\nfeeling sorry I&#8217;m sure<br \/>\nit must deal with the heating<br \/>\nbut try to ignore<\/p>\n<p>the great lack of water<br \/>\nas it slowly dies<br \/>\ndecked out in silver<br \/>\nand yule tide surprise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poor Christmas Tree taken out of the earth and left to perish<br \/>\nwith all the Christmas spirit imaginable <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-christmas-tree\/\">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-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","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=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}