{"id":7213,"date":"2013-03-27T19:50:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T19:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2013-03-27T19:55:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T19:55:34","slug":"adversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/adversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Adversity and a little child in amongst it all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the comfort of my home<br \/>\nnear Ashridge Forest<br \/>\nI peer into a world<br \/>\nof mayhem<br \/>\nwhere<br \/>\na little girl stands amongst<br \/>\na total ruin<br \/>\nwith an empty plasma bag<br \/>\nand such despair<br \/>\nher father or her brother<br \/>\nlies quite close to her<br \/>\nprostrate on a sheet<br \/>\napparently<br \/>\ninjured and in pain<br \/>\nthis poor young soul<br \/>\ndoes try in vain<br \/>\nto help him<br \/>\nbut the trauma<br \/>\ninstantly<br \/>\nleaps out of this scene<br \/>\nand into our hearts<br \/>\na war torn scene<br \/>\nis strewn with chaotic mess<br \/>\nbits of this and bits of that<br \/>\nsqualor really everywhere<br \/>\none wonders really<br \/>\njust what could have been<br \/>\nhow and when this started<br \/>\nto be a time for panic<br \/>\nand for wondering<br \/>\nhow and when this man<br \/>\nwill get to be<br \/>\ntaken to a place where<br \/>\nhe can get some help<br \/>\nuntil that time<br \/>\nhe;s here for all to see<\/p>\n<p>Its just a tiny snapshot<br \/>\nof another world<br \/>\nfar away<br \/>\nI really don&#8217;t know where<br \/>\nbut clearly its a frightening<br \/>\nscenario<br \/>\nthat the little girl<br \/>\nhas clearly had to share<\/p>\n<p>her face tells such a story<br \/>\nher heart must miss a beat<br \/>\nstanding there<br \/>\nnow at a loss<br \/>\nin what looks like some heat<br \/>\nand raining down adversity<br \/>\nchaos and some more<br \/>\nshe a little victim<br \/>\nof what looks like all out war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the comfort of my home near Ashridge Forest I peer into a world of mayhem where a little girl stands amongst a total ruin with an empty plasma bag and such despair her father or her brother lies quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/adversity\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","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=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7216,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions\/7216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}