{"id":43104,"date":"2019-11-05T12:44:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T12:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=43104"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:59:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T09:59:24","slug":"blick-mead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/11\/blick-mead\/","title":{"rendered":"Blick Mead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A world of perfect synergy<br \/>\nWhen time advents to soul<br \/>\nWhen wildness stood majestic<br \/>\nAnd where Each life form took it\u2019s role<br \/>\nPredator and prey create<br \/>\nA balance to pursuit<br \/>\nTrees were they an origin<br \/>\nA megalithic root<br \/>\nAll sharing of the  Salisbury Plain<br \/>\nWhere BLICK MEAD had evolved<br \/>\nA city mores the pity<br \/>\nWith a duty that revolved<br \/>\nAnd A conurbation growing<br \/>\nFrom its megalithic glare<br \/>\nAnd looking at this ditty<br \/>\nWhose knowledge some do share<br \/>\nA mile away<br \/>\nAs crows fly<br \/>\nA massive henge that stands<br \/>\nPre occupied with sabatts<br \/>\nHewn by people hands<br \/>\nBlue stones from the Welsh hills<br \/>\nAnd sarsons it is said<br \/>\nThat rose out of the sodden land<br \/>\nAnd mercurially have led<br \/>\nMany to be enlightened<br \/>\nAt the solstice and beyond<br \/>\nThe equinox that clearly rocks<br \/>\nAnd perhaps a crystal wand<br \/>\nHas drawn a magic picture<br \/>\nAnd brought into the sphere<br \/>\nThe memory of ancestors<br \/>\nWho at Samhain do appear<br \/>\nBones and tools surrendered<br \/>\nOver aeons to the cause<br \/>\nAnd now the dreaded tunnel<br \/>\nSeems to sanction that we pause<br \/>\nAround the Blick Mead<br \/>\nFootprint discovered long ago<br \/>\nThe city that rose from the plain<br \/>\nAnd was lost as we now know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A world of perfect synergy When time advents to soul When wildness stood majestic And where Each life form took it\u2019s role Predator and prey create A balance to pursuit Trees were they an origin A megalithic root All sharing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/11\/blick-mead\/\">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":[244,305,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-in-art","category-explorers-and-visionaries","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43104","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=43104"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43106,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43104\/revisions\/43106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}