{"id":7281,"date":"2018-07-16T07:03:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T07:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7281"},"modified":"2018-07-16T07:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T07:03:01","slug":"for-the-love-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/07\/16\/for-the-love-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"For the love of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded a few days ago of a John Race poem, <em>Gaia<\/em>, which I first read more than 10 years ago. \u00a0What follows is from memory and may not be quite as Race wrote it as I've lost sight of the source (and I've no permission to re-write it here). \u00a0But ...<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gaia<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-copy\">\n<p>I\u2019ve no doctrinal preference for Green.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t love dolphins any more than rats,<\/p>\n<p>Though I\u2019m offended by large block of flats,<\/p>\n<p>And troubled by the stink of kerosene.<\/p>\n<p>And as to whether I should intervene \u2026<\/p>\n<p>I hold no brief for rare, endangered cats;<\/p>\n<p>As far as I\u2019m concerned, let horseshoe bats<\/p>\n<p>Follow the creatures of the Eocene.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, I\u2019m fond of modern man,<\/p>\n<p>Enthusiastic agent of my plan<\/p>\n<p>For him to self-destruct and leave the Earth<\/p>\n<p>As harmonious, as at its birth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded a few days ago of a John Race poem, Gaia, which I first read more than 10 years ago. \u00a0What follows is from memory and may not be quite as Race wrote it as I've lost sight...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}