{"id":43398,"date":"2019-12-07T18:53:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T18:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=43398"},"modified":"2019-12-07T19:24:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T19:24:26","slug":"stonehenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/12\/stonehenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonehenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ancient neolithic  and unique monument<br \/>\nThat shines a light out from the Salisbury Plain<br \/>\nEvery eye that sees it is drawn by it<br \/>\nAnd feels the caring craftsmen and the pain<br \/>\nThey went to to align it with the sunrise<br \/>\nOf Midsummer which was always by<br \/>\n design<br \/>\nThe blue stones and the sarson\u2019s carefully chosen<br \/>\nTo stand alone and in essence help it shine<\/p>\n<p>It has and will always be an inspiration<br \/>\nAn abstract notion from a bygone age<br \/>\nThe brainchild of ancestors<br \/>\nThat brought imagination<br \/>\nThe mindset<br \/>\nand the culture all could gauge<\/p>\n<p>It called out lateral thinking<br \/>\nAnd contemplation<br \/>\nIt\u2019s deliberative and meditative when we<br \/>\nWith our modern eyes wrapped in thoughts of long ago<br \/>\nReflect what musing consequences see<\/p>\n<p>The balladry of many thus combining<br \/>\nA Druidic refrain whose licence we<br \/>\nCome together now in exposition<br \/>\nWith rituals in the open all Agree<br \/>\nAn esotericism of the ancients<br \/>\nWhose magic arts and enchantments came to be<br \/>\nOfficiates and every kind of worshipper<br \/>\nCould magnify the personage for free<\/p>\n<p>To this day every moment we are close by<br \/>\nDeparted spirits humble us to feel<br \/>\nBygone deities and ancient aura\u2019s<br \/>\nWithin the circle are engaged for real<br \/>\nA godhead where the beautiful are manifest<br \/>\nEach order formed each ritual warmed<br \/>\nAnd won<br \/>\nBehold the corvids witness to the ceremony<br \/>\nAnd the perpetuity of all things done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ancient neolithic and unique monument That shines a light out from the Salisbury Plain Every eye that sees it is drawn by it And feels the caring craftsmen and the pain They went to to align it with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/12\/stonehenge\/\">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-43398","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\/43398","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=43398"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43405,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43398\/revisions\/43405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}