The darkening sky: they stand there
\nArms reaching, turning in the wind as ease
\nAs if a dance upon the spot
\nA forest of Iron Trees.<\/p>\n
Iron eejits object
\nBlind to beauty and objecting to innovation
\nThey call themselves environmentalists
\nShow up Ireland as an idiot nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The darkening sky: they stand there Arms reaching, turning in the wind as ease As if a dance upon the spot A forest of Iron Trees. Iron eejits object Blind to beauty and objecting to innovation They call themselves environmentalists Show up Ireland as an idiot nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[109],"tags":[2610,2510,2609,2611,1870,2608,2612,131],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-esb","tag-nimby","tag-power","tag-tin-hat-brigade","tag-wind","tag-wind-generators","tag-windfarm","tag-windmills","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Ea","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1818,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/matchsticks-in-the-wind\/","url_meta":{"origin":2490,"position":0},"title":"Matchsticks in the Wind","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"14th November 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Mankind, and what we build, In the rage of nature, no matter how strong, Or how big, but matchsticks in the wind, Never set to last that long... 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