{"id":60481,"date":"2023-09-11T09:06:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T09:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=60481"},"modified":"2023-09-11T09:06:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T09:06:24","slug":"oaken-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/09\/oaken-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Oaken Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coppiced ancient woodland<br \/>\nSweet chestnuts<br \/>\nLots of light and many poles<br \/>\nA generous cover<br \/>\nFor woodland souls so bright<br \/>\n50 hectares brimming<br \/>\nWith life force every day<br \/>\nA splendid seasonal cover<br \/>\nA truly perpetual way<br \/>\nImagine 70 football pitches<br \/>\nAll that ancient graft<br \/>\nTo create a vile extension<br \/>\nTo a quarry so much craft<br \/>\nPut down by the natural order<br \/>\nBluebells azure light<br \/>\nDog mercury and Anemones<br \/>\nPollen attractants fight<br \/>\nThe imbalances surrounding<br \/>\nHumanity today<br \/>\nThe dormice and the silent bats<br \/>\nAnd reptiles<br \/>\nQuietly they<br \/>\nGo about their beautiful little lives<br \/>\nSo quietly we<br \/>\nCreate a vile explosion<br \/>\nAnd an end to honesty<\/p>\n<p>Arrogance and ignorance<br \/>\nCancerous belief<br \/>\nA system of such evil<br \/>\nBonded with such grief<br \/>\nThe blessings of creation<br \/>\nThe lack of intuition<br \/>\nEnthralled by the pulsation<br \/>\nA scrimping pinching mission<\/p>\n<p>A huge an ugly quarry<br \/>\nInsensibility<br \/>\nThe nonchalance of the unconcerned<br \/>\nSuch indifference feels to me<br \/>\nThe real exaltation of a forest<br \/>\nLeft to feel<br \/>\nThe joyfulness of natural growth<br \/>\nThe honesty is real<\/p>\n<p>I must assert the loathsomeness<br \/>\nOf turning great blind eyes<br \/>\nTo so much honest beauty<br \/>\nUnpalatably<br \/>\nSuch lies<br \/>\nIn destroying all this wonderment<br \/>\nFor a disgusting hole<br \/>\nCreating botheration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coppiced ancient woodland Sweet chestnuts Lots of light and many poles A generous cover For woodland souls so bright 50 hectares brimming With life force every day A splendid seasonal cover A truly perpetual way Imagine 70 football pitches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/09\/oaken-wood\/\">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":[344,173,174,358,236,505],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-bats","category-breathing-and-pollution","category-mice-and-rodents","category-quarries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60481","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=60481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60482,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60481\/revisions\/60482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}