{"id":53939,"date":"2022-05-31T10:11:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T10:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=53939"},"modified":"2022-05-31T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T10:14:35","slug":"new-grange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/05\/new-grange\/","title":{"rendered":"New Grange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a massive feat<\/p>\n<p>of workmanship<\/p>\n<p>farmers and Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>used their mighty muscles<\/p>\n<p>to carve out an astonishing tomb<\/p>\n<p>5200 years ago<\/p>\n<p>270 foot diameter<\/p>\n<p>a structure so much older<\/p>\n<p>than the great Egyptian pyramids<\/p>\n<p>43 feet high it is<\/p>\n<p>a 62,foot passage<\/p>\n<p>into three dark alcoves<\/p>\n<p>imagine this and try<\/p>\n<p>only their \u00a0mean intelligence<\/p>\n<p>their \u00a0muscle and their breath<\/p>\n<p>a collective work of many weeks<\/p>\n<p>wherein those steeped with death<\/p>\n<p>would lie for an eternity<\/p>\n<p>and the River \u00a0Boyne<\/p>\n<p>from Carberry to the Irish \u00a0Sea<\/p>\n<p>count kildare to coin<\/p>\n<p>a phrase this beautiful valley<\/p>\n<p>in Neolithic times<\/p>\n<p>8 miles from Drogheda<\/p>\n<p>this massive stone tomb climbs<\/p>\n<p>upwards to the cloud cover<\/p>\n<p>A 97 stone kerb<\/p>\n<p>seldom were their rhymes<\/p>\n<p>written down to \u00a0acknowledge<\/p>\n<p>the brilliance of the build<\/p>\n<p>the entity apparent<\/p>\n<p>clearly a massive yield<\/p>\n<p>still standing at this very time<\/p>\n<p>a homage to their dead<\/p>\n<p>a monolith \u00a0of miracles<\/p>\n<p>which to this day had led<\/p>\n<p>thousands to the wondrous \u00a0site<\/p>\n<p>the integrity is there<\/p>\n<p>that it has stood the test of time<\/p>\n<p>surely is very clear<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the finest ingenuity<\/p>\n<p>a fulfilment one can say<\/p>\n<p>harmonious and symmetrical<\/p>\n<p>ancestors had a way<\/p>\n<p>pathfinders and explorers<\/p>\n<p>specialists in every field<\/p>\n<p>adaptable and conforming<\/p>\n<p>their hammers and picks did wield.<\/p>\n<p>before Christ by some 3000 years<\/p>\n<p>they maintained their arduous task<\/p>\n<p>that bedrock of solidity<\/p>\n<p>Which was all that we could ask.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>a massive feat of workmanship farmers and Astronomers used their mighty muscles to carve out an astonishing tomb 5200 years ago 270 foot diameter a structure so much older than the great Egyptian pyramids 43 feet high it is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/05\/new-grange\/\">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-53939","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\/53939","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=53939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53943,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53939\/revisions\/53943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}