{"id":194735,"date":"2021-09-13T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=194735"},"modified":"2021-09-11T09:10:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T08:10:47","slug":"merrygolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/09\/merrygolds\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrygolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_194737\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Yellow_French_Marigold_Flower.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194737\" class=\"wp-image-194737\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Yellow_French_Marigold_Flower-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Yellow_French_Marigold_Flower-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Yellow_French_Marigold_Flower.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-194737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow French Marigold<br \/>Wikimedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">O marigolds your beauty is simple<br \/>\nyellow petals from a seed,<br \/>\nwho would have thought?<br \/>\nCan this be an ugly weed?<br \/>\nNo, it\u2019s a marigold blooming in spring,<br \/>\nTurning out like twenty-four carat gold<br \/>\nReady to be put into a bouquet in time of need<br \/>\nWho would have thought the beauty of this yellow bead!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I sit alone and contemplate the beauty of the marigold.<br \/>\nSo simple yet used in devotion.<br \/>\nWith all wonders to behold.<br \/>\nThis is the marigold.<br \/>\nAlmost sacred, yet simple<br \/>\nUsed for celebrations and times of mourning.<br \/>\nThe simple beauty will keep the soul yearning.<br \/>\nNothing can keep its petals from falling.<br \/>\nBack to its seed- the cycle is repeating.<br \/>\nThe cycle of life begins transforming.<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>O marigolds your beauty is simple<br \/>\nyellow petals from a seed,<br \/>\nwho would have thought?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":194737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-194735","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\/194735","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=194735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}