{"id":195333,"date":"2021-09-20T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=195333"},"modified":"2021-09-18T05:36:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T04:36:41","slug":"white-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/09\/white-lily\/","title":{"rendered":"White Lily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/white-lily-copo-de-leite.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-195334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/white-lily-copo-de-leite-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/white-lily-copo-de-leite-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/white-lily-copo-de-leite.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">While the snow white lily creates sheer delight,<br \/>\nwith her innocence and her beauty so bright.<br \/>\nWithout a thorn, without a stain,<br \/>\nHer simplistic beauty never in vain<br \/>\nThe dew falls on her gentle beauty;<br \/>\nlike a heavenly lesson for all hearts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Images of shade in the moonlight.<br \/>\nMelting grief and agony in sheer delight,<br \/>\nRemembering that in the valley<br \/>\ngives birth to a snow white lily,<br \/>\npure white cups<br \/>\nso daintily scalloped like sleeves.<br \/>\nSymbols of purity, peace, humility<br \/>\nand all feminine tranquillity.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/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>While the snow white lily creates sheer delight,<br \/>\nwith her innocence and her beauty so bright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":195334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[1177,868],"class_list":["post-195333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-inspirational","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195333","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=195333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}