{"id":73,"date":"2020-06-26T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T15:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2021-11-05T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:03:51","slug":"a-coroner-vision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=73","title":{"rendered":"A Corona Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-73-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/A-Corona-Vision.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/A-Corona-Vision.mp3\">https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/A-Corona-Vision.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>It all looks the same, the houses, the street;<br \/>\ncars parked outside, gardens tidy and neat.<br \/>\nBut something has happened, the order has changed.<br \/>\nHardly anything&#8217;s moving, it&#8217;s all very strange.<br \/>\nYou can watch the grass grow, hear the birds sing,<br \/>\nhave time to think, and yes, celebrate spring.<\/p>\n<p>But news of our sorrow, is daily broadcast<br \/>\nas more people die than when we heard last.<br \/>\nWhat should we think in this fateful time,<br \/>\nwhen hospitals struggle and families pine?<br \/>\nIs it a warning that we must all heed?<br \/>\nHas nature replied to our rampant greed?<\/p>\n<p>Is it a foretaste of worse things to face;<br \/>\nearth&#8217;s hidden answer for our human race?<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve taken her forests and dried up her lakes,<br \/>\nkilled most of the animals, made dreadful mistakes.<br \/>\nPolluted the rivers, and poisoned the land,<br \/>\nour hungry machines turned mountains to sand.<\/p>\n<p>Now, earth answers back, she&#8217;s warned us enough;<br \/>\nit&#8217;s time for repayment, it&#8217;s going to be tough.<br \/>\nHer seas keep on rising, to flood coastal land,<br \/>\nstorms hit our cities, no, this wasn&#8217;t planned!<br \/>\nDrought kills the fields and rivers run dry,<br \/>\nwhole countries are starving, millions cry.<\/p>\n<p>In land after land the answers are found,<br \/>\nstop cutting down trees, leave oil in the ground.<br \/>\nStop burning all coal, polluting the planet,<br \/>\nuse sun, wind, and water; we can if we plan it!<br \/>\nNow it the time to learn a new wisdom,<br \/>\nstop profiteering and change the old system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=128\">NEXT POEM &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-73-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/A-Corona-Vision.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/A-Corona-Vision.mp3\">https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/A-Corona-Vision.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>It all looks the same, the houses, the street;<br \/>\ncars parked outside, gardens tidy and neat.<br \/>\nBut something has happened, the order has changed.<br \/>\nHardly anything&#8217;s moving, it&#8217;s all very strange.<br \/>\nYou can watch the grass grow, hear the birds sing,<br \/>\nhave time to think, and yes, celebrate spring.<\/p>\n<p>But news of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"margintop-large margintop-xlarge-l clear-both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=73#s\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Corona Vision<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}