{"id":1529,"date":"2014-10-11T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T03:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/?page_id=1529"},"modified":"2015-08-15T00:36:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T00:36:23","slug":"above-cornwood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/?page_id=1529","title":{"rendered":"Above Cornwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com.au\/maps?hl=en&amp;ll=50.437937,-3.970356&amp;spn=0.000219,0.2635&amp;t=m&amp;z=13&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=50.437939,-4.0035&amp;panoid=xq7H4yANlsOEgMxSH_u1Kw&amp;cbp=12,89.54,,0,0\">Here, you see.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I fear this place<br \/>\nI fear the grey rain<br \/>\nThe grey sky<br \/>\nThe ruined grey land<\/p>\n<p>The woods cannot hide<br \/>\ndigging, scraping, spewing<br \/>\nsodden unearthed clay<br \/>\nremoved, reburied, recast<\/p>\n<p>Looking south,<br \/>\nthe city, fog hidden,<br \/>\nrain occluded, it is there.<br \/>\nBetter I do not see it,<br \/>\nbetter remembered.<\/p>\n<p>Steel lined road,<br \/>\nshoddy, spoil pits.<br \/>\nDevon green, Devon grey.<br \/>\nDevon gone<\/p>\n<p>The sacred landscape.<br \/>\nAltered the way,<br \/>\nI\u2019ve always known it.<br \/>\nBulwarked and\u00a0forbidden.<\/p>\n<p>Sterile blue pond,<br \/>\nHow did this happen,<br \/>\nWhat \u00a0forced this rape.<br \/>\nWhat industry gained, the moors lost<\/p>\n<p>Carve up the ancient monuments<br \/>\nThe rows, the standing stones,<br \/>\nsell our heritage for copper.<br \/>\nThen sell our copper for clay.<br \/>\nSpin around now, see what we have,<br \/>\nand what we have not.<\/p>\n<p>I fear this place.<br \/>\nI fear the grey rain,<br \/>\nthe grey sky.<br \/>\nThe ruined grey land.<br \/>\nBecause I love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, you see. I fear this place I fear the grey rain The grey sky The ruined grey land The woods cannot hide digging, scraping, spewing sodden unearthed clay removed, reburied, recast Looking south, the city, fog hidden, rain occluded, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/?page_id=1529\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1849,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1529","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1529\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}