{"id":189066,"date":"2021-07-19T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=189066"},"modified":"2021-07-17T05:02:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T04:02:31","slug":"a-city-in-agony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/07\/a-city-in-agony\/","title":{"rendered":"A City in Agony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A giant wave has crushed us<br \/>\nSounds of gun shots, bombs exploding and helicopters circulating.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, they try to burn the temple of Understanding<br \/>\nA mosque has been burnt to ashes\u2026<br \/>\nA pastor killed trying to protect his flock.<br \/>\nLife in South Africa is clearly A shock!<\/p>\n<p>The pain is crushing, our world is set alight.<br \/>\nTime to detach and remember your true spiritual identities\u2026<br \/>\nTime to connect to Divinity.<br \/>\nOur souls need tranquility.<br \/>\nSearching for peace.<br \/>\nThoughts travel of eternity<\/p>\n<p>Now we have thoughts of despair, distain and disappointment.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t let the darkness swallow you!<br \/>\nThe universe calls you to see the light.<br \/>\nStop the fight.<br \/>\nshanti shanti shanti<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-186568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Dr Usha Roopnarain \u2013 Former parliamentarian in the National Assembly of South Africa, social activist and passionate about human rights and gender equality.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A giant wave has crushed us<br \/>\nSounds of gun shots, bombs exploding and helicopters circulating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":186568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868,1218],"class_list":["post-189066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}