{"id":203777,"date":"2022-01-24T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=203777"},"modified":"2022-01-23T04:09:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T04:09:59","slug":"the-rhino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/01\/the-rhino\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rhino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rhino-rinoceronte-animal.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-203778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rhino-rinoceronte-animal-240x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rhino-rinoceronte-animal-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rhino-rinoceronte-animal-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rhino-rinoceronte-animal.jpeg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I watch you on the safari.<br \/>\nThere you go\u2026rhinoceros<br \/>\nTo think that you are murdered<br \/>\nThey search through the thicket and thorns<br \/>\nFor your God given horns<br \/>\nThat\u2019s so preposterous!<br \/>\nSadly, you are unable to roam freely.<br \/>\nYou are being threatened by slaughter.<br \/>\nEven when you try to sap cool water.<br \/>\nThey ignore nature.<br \/>\nAll for a horn.<br \/>\nThis illegal trade\u2026 they kill for a prize<br \/>\nHumankind and their glutinous greed.<br \/>\nThis is a mockery of nature.<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t care, its only about need<br \/>\nSo, the rhino is left to \u00a0die and bleed.<br \/>\nAll for selfish greed.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry nature will return.<br \/>\nArmed with her pitchfork.<\/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>I watch you on the safari.<br \/>\nThere you go\u2026rhinoceros<br \/>\nTo think that you are murdered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":203778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[1208,786,868],"class_list":["post-203777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-animal-justice","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203777","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=203777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}