{"id":58226,"date":"2023-05-16T06:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=58226"},"modified":"2023-05-16T06:22:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:22:51","slug":"the-smoking-hills-of-cape-bathurst-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/05\/the-smoking-hills-of-cape-bathurst-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"The smoking hills of Cape Bathurst in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the East  coast of Cape Bathurst<br \/>\nClose to the Arctic Ocean<br \/>\nOil hydrocarbons have been burning<br \/>\nActually oil shales<br \/>\nJohn Franklin first discovered them<br \/>\nIn 1826<br \/>\nLit by auto ignition<br \/>\nOne of those old tales<\/p>\n<p>the lignite underground<br \/>\nThe ponds around acidified<br \/>\nAnd minerals now be<br \/>\nRichly decked and ready<br \/>\nA place where coal we see<br \/>\neast of this the Paulatuk community<br \/>\nLiterally means coal<br \/>\nIt Is found in the area<br \/>\nWhere from its life and soul.<\/p>\n<p>Them smoking hills<br \/>\nGave some the chills<br \/>\nFor centuries it burns<br \/>\nThe ponds now are acidic<br \/>\nSulfur rich that turns<br \/>\nEverything acidic<br \/>\nEverywhere you go<br \/>\nCanada North West Territories<br \/>\nAll the action down below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the East coast of Cape Bathurst Close to the Arctic Ocean Oil hydrocarbons have been burning Actually oil shales John Franklin first discovered them In 1826 Lit by auto ignition One of those old tales the lignite underground The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/05\/the-smoking-hills-of-cape-bathurst-in-canada\/\">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":[467,334,305,306],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-coal","category-explorers-and-visionaries","category-explorers-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58226","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=58226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58227,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58226\/revisions\/58227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}