{"id":191774,"date":"2021-08-16T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=191774"},"modified":"2021-08-14T04:34:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T03:34:39","slug":"the-berg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/08\/the-berg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Berg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_191775\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/usha-south-africa.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191775\" class=\"wp-image-191775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/usha-south-africa.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/usha-south-africa.jpeg 484w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/usha-south-africa-227x300.jpeg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-191775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berg is an Afrikaans word meaning mountain. This photo was taken at Castleburn in the foothills of the Southern Drakensberg, South Africa, on 7 Aug 2021. Usha<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The mountains stand tall<br \/>\nYet look so small,<br \/>\nSomewhere the birds call.<br \/>\nThe river flows gently, almost silently.<br \/>\nThe peace embraces me quietly.<br \/>\nLike the arms of His warm embrace.<br \/>\nThis is a blessing, my happy place.<br \/>\nThe tree is naked, stripped off all her leaves<br \/>\nBut there is something beautiful in her.<br \/>\nHer bareness is so delightful.<br \/>\nThis is how the Creator weaves His design.<br \/>\nThis is the berg, where her beauty flows.<br \/>\nShe looks at herself in her own mirror<br \/>\nSoothing beauty reflected in the river.<br \/>\nYet the berg stands there, looking very high<br \/>\nPerhaps wanting to touch the heavenly sky?<br \/>\n_____________________________________<\/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>The mountains stand tall<br \/>\nYet look so small,<br \/>\nSomewhere the birds call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":191775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-191774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191774","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=191774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}