{"id":246,"date":"2010-10-07T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T09:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/?p=246"},"modified":"2014-11-15T15:56:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T10:26:23","slug":"i-am-a-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/i-am-a-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/images\/diamond.jpg?resize=640%2C352&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I sit under a spotlight, behind glass panes<br \/>\nShining, reflecting, radiating light<br \/>\nAnd I watch as people stick their noses<br \/>\nTo the glass, their eyes so bright<\/p>\n<p>I am a diamond, I sparkle like the sun<br \/>\nBut this beauty, this shine, is a deception<br \/>\nI was a rock, beneath soil hidden<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve come a long way, since my journey was begun<\/p>\n<p>I was broken and cut, again and again<br \/>\nMy life seemed to revolve around pain<br \/>\nWhen I thought life couldn&#8217;t get worse<br \/>\nI grew to realise, my hope was in vain<\/p>\n<p>But today I look at myself, and think<br \/>\nIt was all worth it, after all<br \/>\nMy beauty today, makes that despair,<br \/>\nThat pain, that torture, look so small<\/p>\n<p>So when you&#8217;re hurting with endless pain<br \/>\nRemember my story please<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll be a bright, shining star too,<br \/>\nAnd one day this torture will cease<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sit under a spotlight, behind glass panes Shining, reflecting, radiating light And I watch as people stick their noses To the glass, their eyes so bright I am a diamond, I sparkle like the sun But this beauty, this shine, is a deception I was a rock, beneath soil hidden I&#8217;ve come a long way, since my journey was begun I was broken and cut, again and again My life seemed to revolve around pain When I thought life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/i-am-a-diamond\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","tag-poem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5l0ch-3Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/zen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}