{"id":106,"date":"2006-07-26T13:09:17","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T17:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/2006\/07\/26\/the-desert-effect\/"},"modified":"2014-06-21T09:37:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T13:37:01","slug":"the-desert-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/the-desert-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Desert Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The effect of our greed<br \/>On the brown Middle East<br \/>Might very well be<br \/>Of a greenhouse indeed.<br \/>But for Europe, at least,<br \/>Which is naturally green,<br \/>Far from teak trees <br \/>And tropical beasts<br \/>The only result<br \/>Can be desert and drought.<\/p>\n<p>For such is the cord<br \/>Between nature and man<br \/>That even a word<br \/>Cause catastrophe can.<br \/>And, though in the West<br \/>The pagans now reign,<br \/>With the rain in arrest<br \/>And the desert unchained<br \/>The time will have come<br \/>For stony Islam.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Jerusalem<br \/>29 May 1992<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effect of our greedOn the brown Middle EastMight very well beOf a greenhouse indeed.But for Europe, at least,Which is naturally green,Far from teak trees And tropical beastsThe only resultCan be desert and drought. For such is the cordBetween nature and manThat even a wordCause catastrophe can.And, though in the WestThe pagans now reign,With the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,14,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}