{"id":42,"date":"2014-07-18T11:29:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T11:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2014-08-08T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T11:40:18","slug":"well-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/well-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Well of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our groundwater is the well we all drink from. Fracking pollutes.<\/em><\/p>\n

We drink from the well in a desert
\nStagnant the water is impure
\nBut we must drink, be ill or die
\nOur fate, from our location, is sure.
\nBut when we stand beside the babbling waters of the well,
\nBehind us, dormant, a stagnant pool
\nThe wise drink from the fresh water
\nThe stagnant not even drank by the fool.
\nSome men for the love of gold
\nThe fresh water of the well shall pollute
\nWhen all is left is the stangant pool
\nToo late, we will know the truth\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our groundwater is the well we all drink from. Fracking pollutes. We drink from the well in a desert Stagnant the water is impure But we must drink, be ill or die Our fate, from our location, is sure. But when we stand beside the babbling waters of the well, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[55,109],"tags":[111,112,113,110],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-environment","tag-belcoo","tag-fermanagh","tag-leitrim","tag-stop-fracking","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":724,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/life-itself-for-sale\/","url_meta":{"origin":42,"position":0},"title":"Life Itself For Sale","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"23rd September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The water we drink is up for sale That falls free from the sky The frackers for profit pollute the groundwater Its danger they to all deny. 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