{"id":51140,"date":"2021-05-22T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T10:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=51140"},"modified":"2021-05-22T10:31:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T10:31:17","slug":"ecuador-is-magical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/05\/ecuador-is-magical\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador is magical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throats of fire<br \/>\nVolcanoes higher<br \/>\nSnow capped mountains<br \/>\nEcuador<br \/>\nBeauty enlists<br \/>\nThe wispy mists<br \/>\nAnd We know what its all for<\/p>\n<p>Such passion for the visitors<br \/>\nSkies of purple hue<br \/>\nPaychwork farmland<br \/>\nBeautiful people<br \/>\nI always think kindly of you<\/p>\n<p>Filithy mechanisation<br \/>\nForest felling<br \/>\nThe CCP<br \/>\nWant the gold<br \/>\nThey want the copper<br \/>\nTheir insolence<br \/>\nWho needs to see<\/p>\n<p>The greenest jungle<br \/>\nRipped and broken<br \/>\nThe people thrown out<br \/>\nOf their place<br \/>\nShuar warriors<br \/>\nThe greatest people<br \/>\nAn ancient tribe<br \/>\nWith wondrous face<\/p>\n<p>A vital culture<br \/>\nRaw and ancient<br \/>\nForest livers<br \/>\nFrank and true<br \/>\nImporting all this foreign labour<br \/>\nInto a place<br \/>\nIts clueless to<\/p>\n<p>The native people<br \/>\nDisrespectful<br \/>\nThe Shuar the Quechua<br \/>\nLeave them be<br \/>\nThey are born<br \/>\nIn this green heaven<br \/>\nAnd mining gold<br \/>\nWas never key<\/p>\n<p>The equator<br \/>\nholds their secret<br \/>\nEcuador is good and true<br \/>\nThe avenue of the high volcanoes<br \/>\nMuster<br \/>\nGive protection<br \/>\nWhich is true<br \/>\nA magickal place<br \/>\nInspiring splendour<br \/>\nPeople who respect their  gift<br \/>\nMoney isnt all important<br \/>\nThe environment<br \/>\nGives them their lift<\/p>\n<p>To the CCP your greed<br \/>\nIs awful<br \/>\nYour arrogance is totally<br \/>\nAt odds with passion<br \/>\nPure and simple<br \/>\nLeave them alone<br \/>\nLet them be free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throats of fire Volcanoes higher Snow capped mountains Ecuador Beauty enlists The wispy mists And We know what its all for Such passion for the visitors Skies of purple hue Paychwork farmland Beautiful people I always think kindly of you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/05\/ecuador-is-magical\/\">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":[344,173,80,24,305,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-ecuador","category-environmental-poems","category-explorers-and-visionaries","category-indigenous-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51140","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=51140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51142,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51140\/revisions\/51142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}