{"id":61,"date":"2016-07-17T19:44:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T19:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nethergatewriters.org\/?p=61"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:55:51","slug":"building-the-stonehenge-bypass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Building the Stonehenge Bypass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Building the Stonehenge Bypass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The druids shake heads and complain of the youth<br \/>\nand the \u2018lack of respect they show to the Gods\u2019.<br \/>\nThese days it appears they\u2019ve forgotten the truth<br \/>\nand look south to Rome as the place to applaud.<\/p>\n<p>Attendance at Solstice drops further each year:<br \/>\nold faces comprise congregations.<br \/>\nTeenagers pass shrines to taunt and to sneer<br \/>\non the way from the pubs to the chariot stations.<\/p>\n<p>Latin replaces the pure Celtic tongue.<br \/>\nTradition erodes like Woodhenge in the mist.<br \/>\nWhere clear thought and prayer led to wars being won<br \/>\nthe young are relying on spear and on fist.<\/p>\n<p>Graffiti adorns the stones. What a waste!<br \/>\nSomeone has pissed on the altar itself.<br \/>\nThis new generation is turning its face<br \/>\nto the lure of cheap wine and imperial wealth.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Nothing is sacred in these faithless days\u2019,<br \/>\nmoan the bearded and wise to their flock.<br \/>\n\u2018Our children abandon the long cherished ways<br \/>\nand no longer seek answers in rock.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>But the elders will laugh last, and longer,<br \/>\nas the Roman ways crumble and fade:<br \/>\nour children will gaze on in wonder<br \/>\ndumbstruck at the beauty they made.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>CB Donald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building the Stonehenge Bypass The druids shake heads and complain of the youth and the \u2018lack of respect they show to the Gods\u2019. These days it appears they\u2019ve forgotten the truth and look south to Rome as the place to applaud. Attendance at Solstice drops further each year: old faces comprise congregations. Teenagers pass shrines&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=61\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Building the Stonehenge Bypass<\/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-61","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\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}