{"id":42153,"date":"2019-08-30T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=42153"},"modified":"2019-08-30T17:16:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:16:53","slug":"clutching-at-straws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/08\/clutching-at-straws\/","title":{"rendered":"Clutching at straws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We sit together<br \/>\nWhilst all around<br \/>\nThe crackling heat<br \/>\nThe dry parched ground<br \/>\nSuch bad theatre<br \/>\nNo dialogue<br \/>\nThe final curtain<br \/>\nPerhaps the dog<br \/>\nAnd the primates cower<br \/>\nThe Indigenous too<br \/>\nThe tragedy<br \/>\nIs coming true<\/p>\n<p>Impersonating<br \/>\nThe acrobat<br \/>\nThe dancing flames<br \/>\nWhere we are at<br \/>\nHistrionics<br \/>\nFrom afar<br \/>\nBlood and thunder<br \/>\nWe all star<br \/>\nIn our own end<br \/>\nas the troubadour<br \/>\nWe take the limelight<br \/>\nAnd know for sure<br \/>\nThe AMAZONS tears<br \/>\nOf course we hear<br \/>\nA standing ovation<br \/>\nAnd now shared fear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sit together Whilst all around The crackling heat The dry parched ground Such bad theatre No dialogue The final curtain Perhaps the dog And the primates cower The Indigenous too The tragedy Is coming true Impersonating The acrobat The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/08\/clutching-at-straws\/\">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":[344,173,137,22,24,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-birds-and-the-environment","category-death-and-dying","category-environmental-poems","category-indigenous-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42153","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=42153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42155,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42153\/revisions\/42155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}