{"id":205860,"date":"2022-02-28T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=205860"},"modified":"2022-02-25T06:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T06:22:15","slug":"the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/02\/the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/beach-ocean-sea.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-205862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/beach-ocean-sea-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/beach-ocean-sea-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/beach-ocean-sea.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There is a timeless source leaving the shore.<br \/>\nWaves are crashing, fierce almost like a roar!<br \/>\nThe deep blue sea cannot cover or conceal.<br \/>\nThere are moments it tries to heal.<br \/>\nSometimes there is calmness.<br \/>\nSometimes there is darkness.<br \/>\nMaybe like a split personality?<br \/>\nWhooshing over the ancient rocks.<br \/>\nThrough the crashing waves, it changes its form.<br \/>\nSometimes calm, sometimes rough maybe in a breeze or storm.<br \/>\nThis blue watery plain,<br \/>\nCan never speed in vain.<br \/>\nDoes the ocean have secret caves?<br \/>\nPerhaps the ocean whispers to the waves.<br \/>\nMaybe words or solitary sprays.<br \/>\nThe deep blue ocean changes its path in many ways.<\/p>\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>There is a timeless source leaving the shore.<br \/>\nWaves are crashing, fierce almost like a roar!<br \/>\nThe deep blue sea cannot cover or conceal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-205860","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\/205860","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=205860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}