{"id":58179,"date":"2023-05-11T14:31:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=58179"},"modified":"2023-05-11T14:33:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:33:16","slug":"blue-bells-and-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/05\/blue-bells-and-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue bells and the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fair old squall was blowing<br \/>\nRain like scimitars<br \/>\nSlashing from an oatmeal sky<br \/>\nCausing wild flowers scars<br \/>\nWith insufficient sun shine<br \/>\nThe wild flowers seemingly<br \/>\nHang their heads and cling together<br \/>\nFundamentally<br \/>\nA wholeness, and a fullness<br \/>\nAn all embracing  sea<br \/>\nOf bluebells pealing out a tuneful<br \/>\nAncient melody<br \/>\nBrimming with a saturation<br \/>\nOf colours from the sky<br \/>\nOffering up a tumult<br \/>\nA rough and tumble high<br \/>\nAll Dragged tailed and jumbled<br \/>\nWindswept knocked about<br \/>\nThrown into confusion<br \/>\nBe in little doubt<br \/>\nThe bluebells magic vista<br \/>\nAssembled, their great sweep<br \/>\nOf distinctive blossoms<br \/>\nOur wandering eyes, so leap<br \/>\nAcross the many areas, of boundlessness and bloom<br \/>\nThe permanence of Nature<br \/>\nAnd The suddenness of gloom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fair old squall was blowing Rain like scimitars Slashing from an oatmeal sky Causing wild flowers scars With insufficient sun shine The wild flowers seemingly Hang their heads and cling together Fundamentally A wholeness, and a fullness An all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/05\/blue-bells-and-the-rain\/\">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":[24,25,407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems","category-ethereal-poems","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58179","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=58179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58182,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58179\/revisions\/58182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}