{"id":71490,"date":"2026-05-29T23:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71490"},"modified":"2026-05-29T23:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:30:54","slug":"in-the-ancient-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/05\/in-the-ancient-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"In the ancient forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live near the forest<br \/>\nAs ancient as hell<br \/>\nWhere the mosses and lichens<br \/>\nSummarily spell<br \/>\nAncientnessness none of  of the modern day stuff<br \/>\nIn the great web of life<br \/>\nWhere so much is enough<\/p>\n<p>Glyphosate,<br \/>\ntoxins<br \/>\nshooters lead shots<br \/>\nPumped into sad birds<br \/>\nthese rich toady snots<br \/>\nWith money to burn<br \/>\ncould use tungsten to fire<br \/>\nBut prefer to use lead<br \/>\nwhich is ofcourse dire<\/p>\n<p>Get into the ancientness<br \/>\nMisted and old<br \/>\nLichens bursting upwards<br \/>\nSeemingly like gold<br \/>\nDust accumulated from aged specks of care<br \/>\nCortisol rising inflammation  aware<br \/>\nThe Japanese are into it<br \/>\nThey know the ancient ways<br \/>\nThey drink their ceremonials<br \/>\nAnd then their old brain plays<\/p>\n<p>Evidential theories<br \/>\nOf old forests trailing deep<br \/>\nVibrations of the peace on earth<br \/>\nThe great ancestral sweep<br \/>\nOf time, cuts inflammation<br \/>\nDraws waxy shadows through<br \/>\nI believe the forest<br \/>\nWill do great things for you.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by a instagram post from Claudie Ferri<br \/>\nmay 31\/5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live near the forest As ancient as hell Where the mosses and lichens Summarily spell Ancientnessness none of of the modern day stuff In the great web of life Where so much is enough Glyphosate, toxins shooters lead shots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/05\/in-the-ancient-forest\/\">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":[316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forests-and-wild-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71490","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=71490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71492,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71490\/revisions\/71492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}