{"id":193450,"date":"2021-08-30T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=193450"},"modified":"2021-08-28T08:51:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T07:51:07","slug":"the-orange-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/08\/the-orange-orchid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orange Orchid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Orchid-orquidea.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-193451 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Orchid-orquidea-243x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Orchid-orquidea-243x300.jpeg 243w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Orchid-orquidea-768x948.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Orchid-orquidea.jpeg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a>An orange orchid silently blooms<br \/>\nOn bare roots, forgotten but has its own perfume.<br \/>\nThe colorful buds emerge, like little orange balloons<br \/>\nSwallowing the world as she blooms,<br \/>\nNothing can compare to her beauty<br \/>\nNo matter if you have feelings of gloom.<\/p>\n<p>She stands so full of grace!<br \/>\nHer petals the dew drops embrace,<br \/>\nUntouched her petals gleam<br \/>\nHer beauty formed while we dream.<br \/>\nSuch strength, this orchid has taken months to blossom.<br \/>\nHer petals are like our soul<br \/>\nGiving life to the body and mind<\/p>\n<p>Only a Mighty God is so kind<br \/>\nSo, enjoy the orange orchid<br \/>\nAs she stands in the sunlight and wind.<br \/>\nHer beauty is a gift to mankind.<br \/>\nSo impeccable, and difficult to find.<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>An orange orchid silently blooms<br \/>\nOn bare roots, forgotten but has its own perfume.<br \/>\nThe colorful buds emerge, like little orange balloons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":193451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-193450","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\/193450","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=193450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}