{"id":200347,"date":"2021-11-29T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=200347"},"modified":"2021-11-27T08:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T08:51:40","slug":"the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/11\/the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"The River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rain gives birth to one current, one direction.<br \/>\nA river with no return,<br \/>\nFor miles it meanders, perennial or naught,<br \/>\nResting only unto its destination adjourn,<br \/>\nLest this river fools you.<br \/>\nRain fuels its satiety; brings emotions distraught.<br \/>\nShe\u2019s mother to all matter and beings,<br \/>\nShe\u2019s home, recreation and elementary,<br \/>\nShe\u2019s oft\u2019 battered and bruised for others well-being,<br \/>\nBut She purses her lip and steadfast She remains. Merged with the rudimentary.<br \/>\nA conduit for the spirit to drift into thy ocean,<br \/>\nGrief finds peace and solace.<br \/>\nWhilst the departed ascend to the maker,<br \/>\nThis river too, is destined for promotion<br \/>\nAnd need not lose its identity.<br \/>\nBut embrace becoming the ocean in God\u2019s acre.<br \/>\nSo long as we know, that we know, unto our maker we All shall go,<br \/>\nSo long we shall live, giving life to thee and fear not, what we know.<\/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>Rain gives birth to one current, one direction.<br \/>\nA river with no return,<br \/>\nFor miles it meanders, perennial or naught,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":108039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-200347","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\/200347","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=200347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}