{"id":66126,"date":"2025-01-01T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T10:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=66126"},"modified":"2025-01-03T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T13:08:18","slug":"the-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flat and calm<br \/>\nAn ocean blue<br \/>\nThe breach happened<br \/>\nWas it overdue<br \/>\nSpangles on a rainbow theme<br \/>\nThe great whale flipped<br \/>\nAnd it would seem<\/p>\n<p>To excite the man<br \/>\nIn his small row boat<br \/>\nDespite the swell<br \/>\nHe was still afloat<br \/>\nThe magnificence of<br \/>\nthis startling whale<br \/>\nWho breached the surface<br \/>\nAnd found the trail<\/p>\n<p>Upwards where the light can be<br \/>\nSignificant and<br \/>\nForever free<br \/>\nCrashing back an<br \/>\nExplosive force<br \/>\nA vast array<br \/>\nFrom whatever source<\/p>\n<p>Hurled upwards<br \/>\nThreatening<br \/>\nTowards the sky<br \/>\nAll the sea<br \/>\nOn me<br \/>\nWhich was why<br \/>\nShe did fly<br \/>\nSuch velocity<br \/>\nBubbles and spray<br \/>\nEnveloped me<br \/>\non that day<br \/>\nWhere was I<br \/>\nOn the surface seeing<br \/>\nWhat was this fulsome being<br \/>\nEntering my space today<br \/>\nFilling me with an irksome play<br \/>\nOn words,  a poet notices why<br \/>\nThe breach was made<br \/>\nShe had tried to fly<\/p>\n<p>An enormous body<br \/>\nA crashing sound<br \/>\nA fearful escape<br \/>\nClearly around<br \/>\nMy boat awash with torrent wash<br \/>\nRippling surfaces<br \/>\nTrying to squash<br \/>\nMy little boat<br \/>\nLike matchsticks,  I<br \/>\nWas lifted up into the sky <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flat and calm An ocean blue The breach happened Was it overdue Spangles on a rainbow theme The great whale flipped And it would seem To excite the man In his small row boat Despite the swell He was still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-breach\/\">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":[685,402,817,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-likely-story","category-breathing-in-colour","category-the-breach","category-whales-and-sea-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66126","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=66126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66129,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66126\/revisions\/66129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}