{"id":65148,"date":"2024-10-13T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T09:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=65148"},"modified":"2024-10-13T09:47:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T09:47:41","slug":"salisbury-plain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/10\/salisbury-plain\/","title":{"rendered":"Salisbury Plain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elevated chalk platform<br \/>\nFurther than my eyes<br \/>\nCan see in fact<br \/>\nHow they react<br \/>\nFeeling the old ticker<br \/>\nInside my chest today<br \/>\nHistory is everywhere<br \/>\nA generational way<br \/>\nGo back to neolithic times<br \/>\nWhen man did Labour long<br \/>\nBeneath the hills and rivers<br \/>\nTheir bodies still belong<\/p>\n<p>Stonehenge stands in solitude<br \/>\nIt\u2019s grandeur marvellously<br \/>\nSeven miles north of Salisbury<br \/>\nNot far from  Amesbury<br \/>\nRoman earth works<br \/>\nThe valley of Avon too<br \/>\nUndulating pastures<br \/>\nAn uninteruoted view<\/p>\n<p>The great Henge set in motion<br \/>\nWhere no man liveth we<br \/>\nCome as messengers somewhat<br \/>\nThe great antiquity<br \/>\nEmerges from the mists of time<br \/>\nFrom ridges high and low<br \/>\nWas it a Merlin who brought the stones<br \/>\nAnd left them here on show<\/p>\n<p>Some are standing some prostrate<br \/>\nSome circular on plan<br \/>\nA careful deployment of the builders art<br \/>\nCleverly hewn began<br \/>\nSome where else,<br \/>\nfor nothing even similar can we<br \/>\nFind on Salisbury plain Dear friends<br \/>\nWhich is a mystery<\/p>\n<p>Amazing how they were arranged there<br \/>\nA Druids temple why<br \/>\nAlso a kind of monument<br \/>\nTo a series of killings high<br \/>\nHengist killed 460 nobleman tis thought<br \/>\nAnd this structure was thus created<br \/>\nA lasting memory was<br \/>\nsought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elevated chalk platform Further than my eyes Can see in fact How they react Feeling the old ticker Inside my chest today History is everywhere A generational way Go back to neolithic times When man did Labour long Beneath &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/10\/salisbury-plain\/\">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":[755,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-burial","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65148","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=65148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65150,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65148\/revisions\/65150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}