{"id":192489,"date":"2021-08-23T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=192489"},"modified":"2021-08-21T05:32:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T04:32:06","slug":"for-cat-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/08\/for-cat-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"For Cat Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cat-gato-usha.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-192490 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cat-gato-usha-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cat-gato-usha-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cat-gato-usha.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>She looks at me with those big green eyeballs<br \/>\nA type of snowy beard to match the emerald eyes.<br \/>\nNo one owns her!<br \/>\nNo one knows her name!<br \/>\nShe stares at me from dawn till night fall.<br \/>\nO but she does visit everyday<br \/>\nHas found a place of rest.<br \/>\nAnd made herself a permanent guest!<br \/>\nNo one loves her, so she secretly visits.<br \/>\nDelicately she reclines on the wooden floor.<br \/>\nHer velvety paws and whiskers settled,<br \/>\nLike so many times I have seen before.<br \/>\nLooks like a pet cat one sees in pictures.<br \/>\nShe has no fish or mice<br \/>\nMy home is her paradise<br \/>\nIn her emerald eyes,<br \/>\nIt doesn\u2019t matter that she is unwanted or stray.<br \/>\nShe is God`s creature, striped in grey<br \/>\nwho\u2019s come to stay.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t have the heart to send her away.<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>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>She looks at me with those big green eyeballs<br \/>\nA type of snowy beard to match the emerald eyes.<br \/>\nNo one owns her!<br \/>\nNo one knows her name!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":192490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-192489","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\/192489","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=192489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}