{"id":222849,"date":"2022-10-31T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=222849"},"modified":"2022-10-27T10:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:19:45","slug":"transformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/10\/transformed\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Poem Inspired by a Painting<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/usha-mother-foice.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-222850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/usha-mother-foice-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/usha-mother-foice-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/usha-mother-foice-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/usha-mother-foice-768x1065.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/usha-mother-foice-1108x1536.jpg 1108w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/usha-mother-foice.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Transformed into a warrior<br \/>\nArmed with my weapon<br \/>\nTake me to your leader now!<br \/>\nI am not going back to the plough\u2026<br \/>\nBlood oozes from my pores<br \/>\nI will kill him\u2026<br \/>\nI have taken a vow<br \/>\nTransformed into a warrior<br \/>\nMy fear won\u2019t bow.<br \/>\nNo it won\u2019t!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No more \u00a0gathering tea.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s war for my child and me.<br \/>\nI demand vengeance .<br \/>\nWho shall it be?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">War is never the solution<br \/>\nOnly leads to execution.<br \/>\nChaos and bloodshed\u2026<br \/>\nOnly leads to deprivation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Transform into a forgiver<br \/>\nYou feel the revenge<br \/>\nYou feel the torment, the torture<br \/>\nIt makes your body quiver<br \/>\nLet it flow into the river.<br \/>\nBe transformed\u2026<\/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>Poem Inspired by a Painting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":222850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-222849","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\/222849","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=222849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}