{"id":215703,"date":"2022-06-27T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=215703"},"modified":"2022-06-26T04:16:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:16:45","slug":"a-bouquet-of-many-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/06\/a-bouquet-of-many-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bouquet of Many Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deserved praise I give.<br \/>\nThere are no binaries<br \/>\n\u2026only bouquets<br \/>\nMany blooms make up a bouquet.<br \/>\nLike a mosaic of broken tiles\u2026<br \/>\nOr a patchwork of soft smiles\u2026<br \/>\nOr a Thali of many flavours\u2026<br \/>\nA rainbow of many colours.<br \/>\nNo binaries but \u00a0ALWAYS<br \/>\nIncluding others.<br \/>\nLike a tapestry of many threads.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s the way unity is spread.<br \/>\nLike a bubbling pot of cuisines<br \/>\nWhy does sorrows still stream?<br \/>\nMaybe\u2026.<br \/>\nTorment, tears and terrorism have become our only themes.<br \/>\nPerhaps more unity will stop the angry screams!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/usha-bouquet.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-215704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/usha-bouquet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/usha-bouquet.png 454w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/usha-bouquet-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>_____________________________________<\/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>A deserved praise I give.<br \/>\nThere are no binaries<br \/>\n\u2026only bouquets<\/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":[868],"class_list":["post-215703","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\/215703","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=215703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215703\/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=215703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}