{"id":206360,"date":"2022-03-07T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=206360"},"modified":"2022-03-04T06:13:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T06:13:55","slug":"this-war-of-mmxxii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/03\/this-war-of-mmxxii\/","title":{"rendered":"This War of MMXXII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is war my dear!<br \/>\nInvasion for pure greed and gratification.<br \/>\nWhat else can this be?<br \/>\nCivilians, soldiers, casualties dying.<br \/>\nIn their blood lying.<br \/>\nThis is war my dear!<br \/>\nLives are meaningless,<br \/>\nThe soul is downcast and sighing.<br \/>\nThis is the battlefield, blood, brutality.<br \/>\nPoliticians lacking\u00a0 rationality.<br \/>\nAggression, destruction, death and ravished.<br \/>\nSoldiers and innocent lying on the streets.<br \/>\nSurely logic has perished.<br \/>\nThis is war my dear!<br \/>\nThe cold carnage continues \u2026<br \/>\nUnleashed on humanity.<br \/>\nMourning for innocent lives.<br \/>\nWho will stop the insanity?<br \/>\nCan people not see such torment and tragedy?<br \/>\nThis is war my dear!<br \/>\nThere is only depravity and brutality\u2026<br \/>\n_____________________________________<\/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>This is war my dear!<br \/>\nInvasion for pure greed and gratification.<br \/>\nWhat else can this be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":186568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[2009,868],"class_list":["post-206360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-anti-war","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206360","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=206360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}