{"id":8661,"date":"2013-05-27T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8661"},"modified":"2013-05-27T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:00:24","slug":"nature-really-does-know-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/nature-really-does-know-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature really does know best &#8221; Crown of Thorns Starfish&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial fertilisers<br \/>\nimbalance<br \/>\nthe soil and run off<br \/>\nwhich gets to the sea<br \/>\nwhich then gets to the reefs<br \/>\nand to the sea life and creates<br \/>\nbut tragically that should never be<\/p>\n<p>NPK was never really only<br \/>\nwhat the plants required<br \/>\nbut of course then we<br \/>\nare arrogant as the day is long<br \/>\nand the effect on wild life<br \/>\nwas to<br \/>\nchange the Crown of Thorns<br \/>\nand now we see<\/p>\n<p>so many of them breeding<br \/>\nbloody everywhere<br \/>\ncreating holy shit<br \/>\nso hungry, they<br \/>\ngobbling up the creatures<br \/>\non the reef, the barrier reef<br \/>\nthat is what is happening to day<\/p>\n<p>corals are reduced<br \/>\nto whitish skeletons<br \/>\ndie off is a problem<br \/>\nfor us all<br \/>\nthe Crown of Thorns is<br \/>\nnow able to devastate<br \/>\nphosphorus and nitrogen<br \/>\na trawl<\/p>\n<p>across the living corals<br \/>\nmakes it obvious<br \/>\nif this keeps on<br \/>\nthe reef will die away<br \/>\nand its because of man<br \/>\nand all his chemicals<br \/>\nand for his arrogance<br \/>\nhe has to pay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial fertilisers imbalance the soil and run off which gets to the sea which then gets to the reefs and to the sea life and creates but tragically that should never be NPK was never really only what the plants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/nature-really-does-know-best\/\">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":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amphibians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661","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=8661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8665,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661\/revisions\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}