{"id":198914,"date":"2021-11-08T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=198914"},"modified":"2021-11-05T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:00:41","slug":"the-giraffe-from-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/11\/the-giraffe-from-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giraffe from Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/giraffe-girafa.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-198915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/giraffe-girafa-229x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/giraffe-girafa-229x300.jpeg 229w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/giraffe-girafa-781x1024.jpeg 781w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/giraffe-girafa-768x1007.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/giraffe-girafa-1172x1536.jpeg 1172w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/giraffe-girafa.jpeg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the savannah, he stands tall<br \/>\nMasculine, and strong.<br \/>\nTowering in height, everyone looks small.<br \/>\nThe African sun falls over his shadow.<br \/>\nHis long neck sets him apart.<br \/>\nElongated so he can touch his toe.<br \/>\nHis spots are unique with long eyelashes.<br \/>\nWhile he eats,\u00a0 he is vigilant for lions and hyena.<br \/>\nHuman greed in the form of poachers.<br \/>\nHis body amounts to profit.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a product for the poacher`s pocket.<br \/>\nSo, slowly and silently to extinction.<br \/>\nHunters having no moral conviction.<br \/>\nNow you see the earth`s affliction.<br \/>\nGreed for pelts and profit is their only addiction.<br \/>\nIf this continues, he will never see his own reflection.<br \/>\nStop this annihilation!<br \/>\nPoachers hold back your ammunition.<br \/>\nThis is just greed and corruption.<br \/>\nHeartless, merciless- devoid of emotion.<br \/>\nThere will be no\u00a0 Big Five!<br \/>\nNone of them will be left alive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">_____________________________________<\/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>In the savannah, he stands tall<br \/>\nMasculine, and strong.<br \/>\nTowering in height, everyone looks small.<br \/>\nThe African sun falls over his shadow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":198915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-198914","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\/198914","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=198914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}