{"id":202774,"date":"2022-01-10T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=202774"},"modified":"2022-01-08T03:53:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T03:53:19","slug":"frozen-berries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/01\/frozen-berries\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Berries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_202776\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frozen-berries.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202776\" class=\"wp-image-202776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frozen-berries-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frozen-berries-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frozen-berries.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-202776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frozen berries<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Frozen strands of beads,<br \/>\nLooking like crimson pearls.<br \/>\nThe sun is never seen.<br \/>\nHidden?<br \/>\nOr gone away?<br \/>\nOr is the season over?<br \/>\nIs it the shifting tides?<br \/>\nSnow covered the berries.<br \/>\nOr was it cherries?<br \/>\nCast now in white snow.<br \/>\nThe cherry has lost its glow.<br \/>\nThe flakes of snow, nothing seems to grow.<br \/>\nThe winter puts on a gleaming show.<br \/>\nThe beauty of nature can be seen in frost and snow.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_202775\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frost-winter.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202775\" class=\"wp-image-202775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frost-winter-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frost-winter-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frost-winter-768x984.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frost-winter.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-202775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frost &#8211; Winter<\/p><\/div>\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>Frozen strands of beads,<br \/>\nLooking like crimson pearls.<br \/>\nThe sun is never seen.<br \/>\nHidden?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":202775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-202774","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\/202774","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=202774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}