{"id":553,"date":"2014-12-12T14:20:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T22:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=553"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T22:20:30","slug":"self-mutilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"Self Mutilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self Mutilation<\/p>\n<p>She was burning herself.<\/p>\n<p>And her hair was filled with ashes.<\/p>\n<p>She was burning herself.<\/p>\n<p>Using a cigarette instead of matches.<\/p>\n<p>What could make a person go that far?<\/p>\n<p>To bring pain upon herself.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention it left a scar.<\/p>\n<p>Was she punishing herself?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See the shiny blade cut into her arm.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the blood flow freely.<\/p>\n<p>Seems all she does is harm.<\/p>\n<p>She was never greedy.<\/p>\n<p>She had enough to be content.<\/p>\n<p>Her life seemed to be going fine.<\/p>\n<p>There was nothing to resent.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what made it such a crime.<\/p>\n<p>What would make one do it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pain of the knife cutting flesh.<\/p>\n<p>Was she driven by demons to do it?<\/p>\n<p>Was her desire for attention \u00a0at its best?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>HER PASSION IS HER PAIN!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;R. W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2013)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self Mutilation She was burning herself. And her hair was filled with ashes. She was burning herself. Using a cigarette instead of matches. What could make a person go that far? To bring pain upon herself. Not to mention it left a scar. Was she punishing herself? &nbsp; See the shiny blade cut into her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Self Mutilation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,29,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-life-lessons","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}