{"id":51191,"date":"2021-05-26T19:46:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=51191"},"modified":"2021-05-30T17:26:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T17:26:39","slug":"the-dandelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-dandelion\/","title":{"rendered":"The dandelion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughtfulness<br \/>\nAnd lateral thinking<br \/>\nComes to mind when we<br \/>\nWatch a baby gorilla<br \/>\nPick up and flower<br \/>\nAnd be<br \/>\nFascinated with its form<br \/>\nIts colour and its scent<br \/>\nPerhaps a spot of daydreaming<br \/>\nHe clearly is content<\/p>\n<p>A kind of free association<br \/>\nCuriosity<br \/>\nA little ant sleeps<br \/>\nIn the flower<br \/>\nThe gorilla seems to see<br \/>\nAnd perhaps think<br \/>\nIs it  dreaming<br \/>\nWatchful and engrossed<br \/>\nIn Nature clearly attentive<br \/>\nAlmost like his host<\/p>\n<p>He could just crush the little flower<br \/>\nIn his powerful hand<br \/>\nBut that would harm a little friend<br \/>\nHe seems to understand<br \/>\nan other worldly experience<br \/>\nThe baby just felt charmed<br \/>\nDespite the human presence<br \/>\nA photographer who sat<br \/>\nPointing his camera at him<br \/>\nHe just knew  where he was at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughtfulness And lateral thinking Comes to mind when we Watch a baby gorilla Pick up and flower And be Fascinated with its form Its colour and its scent Perhaps a spot of daydreaming He clearly is content A kind of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-dandelion\/\">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":[240,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gorillas-in-the-wild","category-magick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51191","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=51191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51236,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51191\/revisions\/51236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}