{"id":44240,"date":"2020-02-12T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=44240"},"modified":"2020-02-12T11:14:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T11:14:19","slug":"the-old-gate-the-edge-of-the-moor-below-cosdon-hill-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-old-gate-the-edge-of-the-moor-below-cosdon-hill-ill\/","title":{"rendered":"The old gate (the edge of the moor below Cosdon Hill)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For me \u201cNO HUNTING\u201d<br \/>\nSays it all<br \/>\nA peaty path<br \/>\nWhere shadows fall<br \/>\nAcross Dartmoor<br \/>\nA wooden gate<br \/>\nA dry stone wall<br \/>\nWhose crumbled state<\/p>\n<p>Gives<br \/>\npassers by<br \/>\nA chance maybe<br \/>\nTo stop and ponder<br \/>\nAnd to see<br \/>\nAnd feel<br \/>\nThe peace and charm<br \/>\nAnd know<br \/>\nHow the light here<br \/>\nHelps wild things grow<\/p>\n<p>Abundance gifted<br \/>\nNaturally<br \/>\nA picture postcard<br \/>\nConstancy<br \/>\nIt\u2019s where eyes brighten<br \/>\nAnd minds reflect<br \/>\nWhere ideas<br \/>\npossibly collect<\/p>\n<p>From The inner mind<br \/>\nthe inner child<br \/>\nIn all of us<br \/>\nwho feel the wild<br \/>\nNatural landscape<br \/>\neverywhere<br \/>\nAnd Instinctively<br \/>\nbegin to share<\/p>\n<p>The philosophy<br \/>\nthe ethic here<br \/>\n\u201cNO HUNTING\u201d<br \/>\nyes it\u2019s very clear<br \/>\nLife is sacred<br \/>\nThere will be<br \/>\nsuch potentiality<\/p>\n<p>Meadow pipits<br \/>\nskylarks too<br \/>\nSnipes and Buzzards<br \/>\nsailing through<br \/>\nBats and mice<br \/>\na balance set<br \/>\nUncontested<br \/>\nwhich does let<\/p>\n<p>A genuineness<br \/>\nauthenticated<br \/>\nPonies, sheep all erstwhile stated<br \/>\nPerhaps a polecat we may see<br \/>\nAnd an adder on a sunlit spree<br \/>\nFor Wild Wood Lane we met today<br \/>\nAnd Surprisingly to you I say<\/p>\n<p>A little rhyme for our first time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me \u201cNO HUNTING\u201d Says it all A peaty path Where shadows fall Across Dartmoor A wooden gate A dry stone wall Whose crumbled state Gives passers by A chance maybe To stop and ponder And to see And feel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-old-gate-the-edge-of-the-moor-below-cosdon-hill-ill\/\">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":[137,24,114,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-and-the-environment","category-environmental-poems","category-fox-hunting","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44240","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=44240"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44250,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44240\/revisions\/44250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}