{"id":217068,"date":"2022-07-25T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=217068"},"modified":"2022-07-25T04:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T03:13:49","slug":"you-will-not-be-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/07\/you-will-not-be-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"YOU Will Not Be Silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you wandering.<br \/>\nIn this stagnant world?<br \/>\nPerhaps it\u2019s time to shift.<br \/>\nLearn that it\u2019s okay to drift.<br \/>\nAmidst the restlessness.<br \/>\nYou will realise.<br \/>\nYes doubt may fill your teary eyes.<br \/>\nYou will not be the same.<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t need fame.<\/p>\n<p>You will not tolerate blame.<br \/>\nYou will not tolerate the tyranny and shame.<br \/>\nYou will stand up and proclaim.<br \/>\nPeace must prevail.<br \/>\nEven if you alone.<br \/>\nYou are not moulded in stone.<br \/>\nRemember\u2026<br \/>\nYou have a purpose.<br \/>\nTell the cruel hearts of the world.<br \/>\nLike the wind and waves.<br \/>\nYou will not be silent.<br \/>\nYou will not be quiet.<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>Are you wandering.<br \/>\nIn this stagnant world?<br \/>\nPerhaps it\u2019s time to shift.<\/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-217068","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\/217068","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=217068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217068\/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=217068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}