{"id":8812,"date":"2013-06-05T13:49:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T13:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8812"},"modified":"2014-12-18T17:16:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T17:16:17","slug":"the-wicker-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/06\/the-wicker-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wicker man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The influence of Christianity<br \/>\nsaw Sergeant Howie, come<br \/>\nby seaplane<br \/>\nto the island<br \/>\nthe landlord&#8217;s daughter some<br \/>\nburning issues, on his mind<br \/>\nand Willow&#8217;s rule of thumb<br \/>\ndancing naked in her room<br \/>\nslapping she, and some<br \/>\nMaypoles represent<br \/>\nthe phallic symbol as of May<br \/>\nRowan Morrison once<br \/>\na child but now a Hare they say<br \/>\nin a grave where cliffs and seagulls<br \/>\nviolate the air<br \/>\nfailing crops and sacrifice<br \/>\nseemingly do share<\/p>\n<p>believers in that vital role<br \/>\nmasked the cauldron bubbling hot<br \/>\nand what is the approaching soul<br \/>\nthe pentacle of swords we&#8217;ve got<br \/>\na game of chance may possibly<br \/>\nPunch unclothed was caught<br \/>\nhe&#8217;d swapped his clothes  a final dance<br \/>\nhis will it seemed was sought<\/p>\n<p>a generous libation ale all foaming white<br \/>\ncoming of his own free will<br \/>\nThe Wicker man in sight<br \/>\nthey sacrificed a policeman<br \/>\na powerhouse dancing free<br \/>\na re birth coming in the wind<br \/>\nbrought improbity<\/p>\n<p>crops failed for a reason<br \/>\nthe pagan slate wiped clean<br \/>\ngod of fire and fruitful ire<br \/>\nthe wicker man did lean<br \/>\nforward as the conflagration<br \/>\nreally set the scene<br \/>\ndancing in the flames he fell<br \/>\nknocking on the doors of hell<br \/>\nfrightening  the onlookers spell<br \/>\nand sergeant Howie&#8217;s spleen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The influence of Christianity saw Sergeant Howie, come by seaplane to the island the landlord&#8217;s daughter some burning issues, on his mind and Willow&#8217;s rule of thumb dancing naked in her room slapping she, and some Maypoles represent the phallic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/06\/the-wicker-man\/\">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":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812","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=8812"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19369,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions\/19369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}