{"id":58228,"date":"2023-05-16T06:38:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=58228"},"modified":"2023-05-16T06:38:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:38:52","slug":"fire-mountain-or-wingen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/05\/fire-mountain-or-wingen\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFire\u201d Mountain or Wingen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was thought to be volcanic<br \/>\nA mountain burning long<br \/>\nThe Aborigines called it Wingen<br \/>\nFire still going strong<br \/>\nThey thought a tribesman caused it<br \/>\nWho lit a fire and he<br \/>\nWas carried off by the evil one<br \/>\nBack in history<br \/>\nUnable to escape<br \/>\nHe thought to warn his friends<br \/>\nLit his fire stick<br \/>\nThe mountain burned<br \/>\nAs a warning the smoke ascends<br \/>\nBut history confirmed<br \/>\na Reverend Wilton<br \/>\nIn 1829<br \/>\nFound it to be a coal seam fire<br \/>\nIn a real deep mine<br \/>\nBurning some 6000 years<br \/>\nThe oldest known coal fire<br \/>\nAnd still burning up till today<br \/>\nA really expansive pyre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was thought to be volcanic A mountain burning long The Aborigines called it Wingen Fire still going strong They thought a tribesman caused it Who lit a fire and he Was carried off by the evil one Back in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/05\/fire-mountain-or-wingen\/\">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":[344,89,358,482,334,305,306,316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-australia-and-the-epic-journeys","category-breathing-and-pollution","category-carbon-emissions","category-coal","category-explorers-and-visionaries","category-explorers-of-note","category-forests-and-wild-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58228","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=58228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58229,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58228\/revisions\/58229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}