{"id":211510,"date":"2022-05-16T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=211510"},"modified":"2022-05-13T10:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T09:30:13","slug":"evil-intent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/05\/evil-intent\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Intent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seeds of evil have been sown.<br \/>\nTo each country it\u2019s own.<br \/>\nCrimes of evil, crimes of hate.<\/p>\n<p>Misery and war refuse to pass,<br \/>\nDreams of humanoids<br \/>\nShattered like broken glass.<br \/>\nFear, scorn and masses of casualties.<br \/>\nWhen will this pass?<\/p>\n<p>Greed, \u00a0attached to arrogant power<br \/>\nYeah they sit in their tower!<\/p>\n<p>Their lives hardened by dominion and rule.<br \/>\nUsing their power,<br \/>\nAnd whispering<br \/>\nUnleash bloody \u00a0war.<br \/>\nSays they just people!!!<br \/>\nHe says to himself I\u2019m a ruler!<br \/>\nThe great abuser!!!!<br \/>\nScoffs at humanity.<br \/>\nMocks at the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The oppressor watches<br \/>\nThe countless brutality.<br \/>\nThe war continues\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>13 May 2022<\/em><\/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>The seeds of evil have been sown.<br \/>\nTo each country it\u2019s own.<br \/>\nCrimes of evil, crimes of hate.<\/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-211510","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\/211510","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=211510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211510\/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=211510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}