{"id":194139,"date":"2021-09-06T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=194139"},"modified":"2021-09-04T06:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T05:07:32","slug":"accepting-the-seasons-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/09\/accepting-the-seasons-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepting the Seasons of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Celebrating Spring in South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are winters of grief<br \/>\nSummers of joy,<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_194140\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/flowers-spring-usha.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194140\" class=\"wp-image-194140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/flowers-spring-usha-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/flowers-spring-usha-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/flowers-spring-usha.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-194140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By the author<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Spring awakens with a new leaf<br \/>\nAnd My heart jumps<br \/>\nIts like nature has given me goose bumps!<\/p>\n<p>Among the cuckoo birds chirping<br \/>\nWill the snow be returning?<br \/>\nAre things not what they seem?<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t waste your life on selfish gain<br \/>\nIt will be gone like the rain.<br \/>\nOnly what you do to uplift humanity<br \/>\nWill bring sacred dignity.<br \/>\nSo, in this world filled with tragedy, brutality, vanity<br \/>\nUnbelief in a greater power is insanity.<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>Celebrating Spring in South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":194140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-194139","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\/194139","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=194139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}