{"id":201137,"date":"2021-12-13T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=201137"},"modified":"2021-12-10T07:25:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T07:25:23","slug":"the-sneaky-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/12\/the-sneaky-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sneaky Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to be gripped by fear<br \/>\nSometimes it takes a slithering slimy snake!<br \/>\nOr even \u00a0the thoughts that we make!<br \/>\nOver the grass, the spotted \u00a0sneaky snake moves.<br \/>\nThe sight of him!<br \/>\nO the terror he proves.<br \/>\nPoisonousness and lethal.<br \/>\nCan he a communist?<br \/>\nI am asking?<br \/>\nLook at his \u00a0moves- they \u00a0are so ominous!<br \/>\nThose beady eyes, tapered and scary.<br \/>\nHe\u00a0 looks wise and he knows humans are in for an awful surprise!<br \/>\nIt\u2019s so easy to tell them lies.<br \/>\nHe laughs at their fears and anxiety.<br \/>\nRemember how he whispered to Eve in her ear?<br \/>\nHe Possesses the will to fear and immobilise.<br \/>\nSpotted and deadly he moves waiting to paralyse.<br \/>\nDeviously, knowing he won\u2019t be recognised.<br \/>\nHis venom can even hypnotize.<br \/>\nHe knows how humans overanalyse.<br \/>\nstill, he is able to terrorise.<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>It\u2019s easy to be gripped by fear<br \/>\nSometimes it takes a slithering slimy snake!<br \/>\nOr even  the thoughts that we make!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-201137","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\/201137","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=201137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}