{"id":1514,"date":"2015-03-10T10:25:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T10:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2015-03-10T10:25:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T10:25:49","slug":"heart-turned-to-gold-or-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/heart-turned-to-gold-or-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Turned To Gold or Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Man\"<\/a>The heart shall turn forged by life, love and pain
\nTo gold, or maybe to stone,
\nTo be mined from the chest by life,
\nLeft empty, left alone…<\/p>\n

Forever scarred, that landscape states
\nThat neath the growing vegitation
\nThere once beat a heart , now mined and sold
\nFor profit of Life’s Hard Corporation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The heart shall turn forged by life, love and pain To gold, or maybe to stone, To be mined from the chest by life, Left empty, left alone… Forever scarred, that landscape states That neath the growing vegitation There once beat a heart , now mined and sold For profit …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[724],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heartbreak-poems","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-oq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":213,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/stone-angels-stone-hearts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1514,"position":0},"title":"Stone Angels, Stone Hearts","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"11th June 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Pennies of the poor gathered, one by one, counted Thousands, and hundreds of thousands, from the faithful amounted... 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