{"id":355,"date":"2007-03-24T16:25:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T20:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/2007\/03\/24\/at-all-costs\/"},"modified":"2007-03-24T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T20:25:25","slug":"at-all-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/at-all-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"At All Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At all costs<br \/>I must repress<br \/>The constant wish<br \/>That round this garden fair<br \/>Would stand <br \/>A high wall<br \/>O&#8217;er which no wanton<br \/>Louts nor stray cats<br \/>Could climb;<br \/>Or that the gates<br \/>With chain and lock<br \/>Be sealed post-noon<br \/>&#8216;Gainst all save nature lovers<br \/>Who harm not life<br \/>Nor earth pollute<br \/>With bloated plastic bags,<br \/>Which on the bushes<br \/>Get impaled<br \/>And suffocate the ponds.<\/p>\n<p>Why so?<br \/>To let this wish<br \/>Take root within<br \/>Would merely nurture<br \/>The fatal lie<br \/>That Eden still exists.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Jerusalem<br \/>13 May 1992<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At all costsI must repressThe constant wishThat round this garden fairWould stand A high wallO&#8217;er which no wantonLouts nor stray catsCould climb;Or that the gatesWith chain and lockBe sealed post-noon&#8216;Gainst all save nature loversWho harm not lifeNor earth polluteWith bloated plastic bags,Which on the bushesGet impaledAnd suffocate the ponds. Why so?To let this wishTake root [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"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=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}