{"id":68567,"date":"2025-06-19T09:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=68567"},"modified":"2025-06-19T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:56:13","slug":"witch-hazels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/06\/witch-hazels\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch Hazels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witch<br \/>\nHazels bloom in Winter<br \/>\nTheir illustrious spidery flowers<br \/>\nCharged with potent perfume<br \/>\nTo awake the sleeping powers<br \/>\nOf certain moths and others<br \/>\nPartners in Natures claim<br \/>\nTo breed life into all these trees<br \/>\nAnd create a lasting flame<br \/>\nOf life force via spirit<br \/>\nThe ultimate extreme<br \/>\nPurposeful and magical and permanent<br \/>\nEmboldening a true perpetual stream<\/p>\n<p>Man of course aligned with their financials<br \/>\nAre<br \/>\nObviously making money where they choose<br \/>\nSeeing Nature putting forth its magic<br \/>\nArmed with this potential<br \/>\nCreate news<br \/>\nOf grafting off the mothers<br \/>\nExpecting that  the tree<br \/>\nWill accept the death of Nature<br \/>\nAnd grow on purposefully <\/p>\n<p>Nature seen as godly<br \/>\nIs avid in its place<br \/>\nIt carries on with purpose<br \/>\nHonouring it\u2019s space<br \/>\nFighting against arrogance<br \/>\nAnd maintaining its right<br \/>\nTo put up suckers permanently<br \/>\nAnd just enjoy it\u2019s fight<\/p>\n<p>Humanity apparently sees ignorance abroad<br \/>\nMoney makes the world go around<br \/>\nCan Nature afford<br \/>\nTo work against the ignorance<br \/>\nThe performance of the free<br \/>\nWildness and it\u2019s need to prosper<br \/>\nThe Witch Hazel tree<\/p>\n<p>Growers taught to pull up new growth<br \/>\nThe \u201cmothers\u201d so to say<br \/>\nThe fact that we want different colours<br \/>\nBy design our way<br \/>\nMore money in the coffers<br \/>\nAll specimens you see<br \/>\nTwo fingers to Nature<br \/>\nThat\u2019s how it has to be<\/p>\n<p>Or does it ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witch Hazels bloom in Winter Their illustrious spidery flowers Charged with potent perfume To awake the sleeping powers Of certain moths and others Partners in Natures claim To breed life into all these trees And create a lasting flame Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/06\/witch-hazels\/\">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":[160,363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whistleblowers","category-wildness-is-our-friend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68567","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=68567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68571,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68567\/revisions\/68571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}