{"id":203257,"date":"2022-01-17T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=203257"},"modified":"2022-01-14T10:32:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T10:32:54","slug":"the-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/01\/the-kite\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/kite-festival.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-203258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/kite-festival.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/kite-festival.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/kite-festival-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Up and up the kite flies.<br \/>\nThe wind carries it afloat<br \/>\nYet it cannot reach the star.<br \/>\nGod has set it so remote.<br \/>\nHanging and hooked by a thread<br \/>\nKites are adorned in the sky overhead.<br \/>\nCan the thread be broken?<br \/>\nYes, I said.<br \/>\nLike human hearts.<br \/>\nBut the kite must fly again!<br \/>\nEven though there is no rain.<br \/>\nSo too must human hearts.<br \/>\nHeal even if there is pain.<\/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>Up and up the kite flies.<br \/>\nThe wind carries it afloat<br \/>\nYet it cannot reach the star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":203258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-203257","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\/203257","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=203257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}