{"id":246758,"date":"2016-05-30T08:58:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T08:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/jack-in-the-greens-blue\/"},"modified":"2016-05-30T08:58:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T08:58:55","slug":"jack-in-the-greens-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/jack-in-the-greens-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack In The Green\u2019s Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He sits disillusioned and despondent.<br \/>\nImprisoned and exiled<br \/>\nto a windy, exhaust-fumed smelly<br \/>\ntraffic island on the arse-end<br \/>\nof this post-industrial town.<br \/>\nStagnating upon yellow grasses,<br \/>\nscrub bushes and granite chippings.<br \/>\nThe acid rain and oil slick puddles<br \/>\nhelp to strangle away all hope.<br \/>\nThey\u2019re building another flyover bridge<br \/>\nyonder where the duck ponds<br \/>\nand the rabbit burrows used to be.<br \/>\nThe Ancient Hawthorn Hedgerows,<br \/>\nripe with blackberry, sloe and acorn.<br \/>\nAlive with finches, yellowhammers,<br \/>\nthrushes, tits, little owls and the like.<br \/>\nAre lost forever to out of town<br \/>\ncarparks, garages and supermarkets.<br \/>\nMiles and miles of cold, grey concrete<br \/>\nsmothering Mother Nature\u2019s<br \/>\nonce healthy green and beautiful face.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/05\/jack-in-the-greens-blue\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He sits disillusioned and despondent. Imprisoned and exiled to a windy, exhaust-fumed smelly traffic island on the arse-end of this post-industrial town. Stagnating upon yellow grasses, scrub bushes and granite chippings. The acid rain and oil slick puddles help to strangle away all hope. They\u2019re building another flyover bridge yonder where the duck ponds and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}