{"id":48,"date":"2016-07-01T11:04:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T11:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nethergatewriters.org\/?p=48"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:57:09","slug":"atomic-beach-dalgety-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Beach (Dalgety Bay)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the burned bones of the broken big birds<\/p>\n<p>Radium glows, green for danger.<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere the tide has wandered it;<\/p>\n<p>except, into the cirrhotic conscience of the M.O.D.<\/p>\n<p>And ranged against it, a protection agency too effete even<\/p>\n<p>to protect its own dignity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Swept under the carpet of national security<\/p>\n<p>They failed to move the rocks high enough<\/p>\n<p>Or bury the frowning advice deep enough<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years later<\/p>\n<p>An ulcer rots between the toes of the shoreline.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Roddie McKenzie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the burned bones of the broken big birds Radium glows, green for danger. Everywhere the tide has wandered it; except, into the cirrhotic conscience of the M.O.D. And ranged against it, a protection agency too effete even to protect its own dignity. &nbsp; Swept under the carpet of national security They failed to move&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=48\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atomic Beach (Dalgety Bay)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}