{"id":230813,"date":"2023-03-06T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=230813"},"modified":"2023-03-05T04:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T04:24:16","slug":"kapicam-now-a-place-for-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/03\/kapicam-now-a-place-for-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Kapicam Now a Place for the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Poem inspired by the mass graves in Turkey after a 7.8 earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on 6 Feb 2023.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The parting day, weeping and gnashing.<\/p>\n<p>Searching for bodies, heads or bones.<br \/>\nWeeping with deep moans.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no grave stones in Kapicam<br \/>\nOnce a peaceful village now transformed into a place of the dead.<br \/>\nDeafening screaming tones.<br \/>\nThere is pain in losing, nothing one can master.<br \/>\nThis earthquake caused so much disaster.<\/p>\n<p>For fifty thousand lives<br \/>\nAnd still counting<br \/>\nFamilies gasping trying to find the dead<br \/>\nOnly tears, trauma<br \/>\nThey are given numbers<br \/>\nAnd no tombstone to rest their head!<br \/>\nNothing else to identify them.<br \/>\nThey search in vain.<br \/>\nTears fall like drops of rain.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the rubble<br \/>\nHas caused the deaths to double.<br \/>\nSo many souls and countless others.<br \/>\nMay GOD comfort the families<br \/>\nMay those find rest<br \/>\nFind comfort that God chooses the best.<\/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 the mass graves in Turkey after a 7.8 earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on 6 Feb 2023. <\/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":[868,413,395],"class_list":["post-230813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry","tag-syria","tag-turkiye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230813","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=230813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230815,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230813\/revisions\/230815"}],"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=230813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}