{"id":62848,"date":"2024-03-11T12:10:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=62848"},"modified":"2024-03-11T12:10:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:10:32","slug":"pitstone-24-10-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/03\/pitstone-24-10-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitstone 24\/10\/1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot for the life of me<br \/>\nContemplate the worst<br \/>\nIt\u2019s as if, the town was evil<br \/>\nAnd had actually been cursed<br \/>\nIt makes in fact no sense at all<br \/>\nTo see a Natural Site<br \/>\nTransformed into a Hell on earth<br \/>\nLike it\u2019s proposed, one night<br \/>\nMeandering the chalk streams<br \/>\nWhere life teems, I do run<br \/>\nUp and over Pitstone Hill<br \/>\nIn search of what we\u2019ve done<\/p>\n<p>To so deserve this treatment<br \/>\nFor those who have tried<br \/>\nGiven of our Labour<br \/>\nAnd now we are mystified<br \/>\nWe did allow the town to be<br \/>\nCovered in the dust<br \/>\nIt blew from out of their chimneys<br \/>\nAnd still we gave our trust<br \/>\nWe breathed it in for us NO WIN<br \/>\nHow it did disgust<br \/>\nOur men came home like snowmen<br \/>\nAnd that is bloody right<br \/>\nThe dust was almost everywhere<br \/>\nEvery single night<br \/>\nIn their ears  and in their eyes<br \/>\nMatted in their hair<br \/>\nBetween their toes<br \/>\nWe were unwise<br \/>\nIt just got everywhere<br \/>\nTo put up with this horrid muck<br \/>\nBlowing all around<br \/>\nEven around their genitals<br \/>\nThe bloody stuff was found<br \/>\nAnd now the bastards want to sell us down the river to<br \/>\nA rubbish tip and 19 years<br \/>\nWell it will never do<\/p>\n<p>We have had it up to here with them<br \/>\nThey have treated us like muck<br \/>\nAnd now we do not trust them<br \/>\nFor they had their mshare of luck<br \/>\nNow where\u2019s ours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot for the life of me Contemplate the worst It\u2019s as if, the town was evil And had actually been cursed It makes in fact no sense at all To see a Natural Site Transformed into a Hell on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/03\/pitstone-24-10-1996\/\">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":[137,377,398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-and-the-environment","category-duty-of-care-was-never-there","category-pitstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62848","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=62848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62849,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62848\/revisions\/62849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}