{"id":205450,"date":"2022-02-21T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=205450"},"modified":"2022-02-19T03:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T03:37:48","slug":"the-bridge-or-the-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/02\/the-bridge-or-the-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bridge or the Barrier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bridge-ponte.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-205451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bridge-ponte-1024x752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bridge-ponte-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bridge-ponte-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bridge-ponte-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bridge-ponte.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There is a tottering bridge,<br \/>\nacross the rocky mountain ridge<br \/>\nWill you use it to build?<br \/>\nWhat do you see?<br \/>\nIs it a boulder? Is it a barrier?<br \/>\nCan it be a strong shoulder?<br \/>\nEven brokenness can be a bridge!<br \/>\nBut how?<br \/>\nBridge the gap.<br \/>\nDo not burn the bridge.<br \/>\nEven when sorrow and adversity comes.<br \/>\nBuild a bridge to cover the wall.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t let it dictate and divide.<br \/>\nLet ego and pride be set aside.<\/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>There is a tottering bridge,<br \/>\nacross the rocky mountain ridge<br \/>\nWill you use it to build?<\/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-205450","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\/205450","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=205450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205450\/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=205450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}