{"id":52146,"date":"2021-10-27T21:07:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T21:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=52146"},"modified":"2021-10-27T21:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T21:25:06","slug":"the-ganges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-ganges\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ganges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">The Ganges<\/p>\n<p>we\u2019ve all seen it<\/p>\n<p>a river some abuse<\/p>\n<p>to\u00a0pray upon<\/p>\n<p>till life has gone<\/p>\n<p>we have all got lots to lose<\/p>\n<p>the sitar in our minds eye<\/p>\n<p>Purifies the soul<\/p>\n<p>death is soaking in its waters<\/p>\n<p>the populations goal<\/p>\n<p>Millions being poisoned<\/p>\n<p>holy maybe so<\/p>\n<p>but every kind of excrement<\/p>\n<p>is in there as \u00a0we know<\/p>\n<p>Just a tiny drop<\/p>\n<p>can cleanse the body of all sin<\/p>\n<p>This muddy smelly putrid crap<\/p>\n<p>In the Nations bin<\/p>\n<p>is being dumped now everywhere<\/p>\n<p>all that sweat and pee<\/p>\n<p>tasted the acrid waste of millions<\/p>\n<p>is it so healthy<\/p>\n<p>Gangotra born and desolate<\/p>\n<p>pilgrims everywhere<\/p>\n<p>gongs and bells and flowing beards<\/p>\n<p>its up there pure fresh \u00a0air<\/p>\n<p>ice cold flows are waiting<\/p>\n<p>the pilgrims bathe and know<\/p>\n<p>They feel cleansed forever<\/p>\n<p>in its heavenly flow<\/p>\n<p>Goddess Ganga flourishes<\/p>\n<p>prayers are given free<\/p>\n<p>Some walk here from God knows where<\/p>\n<p>sadhu\u2019s believe they be<\/p>\n<p>ashen of complexion<\/p>\n<p>and holier than thee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ganges we\u2019ve all seen it a river some abuse to\u00a0pray upon till life has gone we have all got lots to lose the sitar in our minds eye Purifies the soul death is soaking in its waters the populations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-ganges\/\">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":[173,25,376,428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-ethereal-poems","category-india","category-india-and-the-visionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52146","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=52146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52150,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52146\/revisions\/52150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}