{"id":3851,"date":"2018-09-14T14:47:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T14:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2018-09-08T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T14:50:09","slug":"in-the-name-of-pain-by-suchitra-awasthi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/2018\/09\/14\/in-the-name-of-pain-by-suchitra-awasthi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;In the name of Pain&#8217;, by Suchitra Awasthi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\">Pain is a pre-requisite to Creation. Take for example the process of bringing forth life. Albeit it is a painful process, nevertheless, it is also a glorious creation. History stands testimony to the fact that all the great ones who ever walked the Earth have<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\">risen to great heights walking through the aisle of pain. &#8220;Love till it hurts&#8221; is the beautiful message bequeathed to us by Mother Teresa. I consider myself fortunate to have known a few &#8220;chosen&#8221; ones who have borne the cross of their lives with a brave heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\">Their lives have made me understand the significance of the maxim of &#8220;Grace Under Pressure &#8220;. Living in the proximity of pain, at this watershed moment of my life, I endeavour to explore the uncharted realm of Metaphysics and as I inch towards it silently,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\">I experience the power of the Void in my own quaint way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>by Suchitra Awasthi<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UK\/India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pain is a pre-requisite to Creation. Take for example the process of bringing forth life. Albeit it is a painful process, nevertheless, it is also a glorious creation. History stands testimony to the fact that all the great ones who ever walked the Earth have risen to great heights walking through the aisle of pain. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[5],"tags":[23,31,17,12,11,26],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthology","tag-gratitude","tag-hardship","tag-hope","tag-invisibility","tag-isolation","tag-social","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bHTD-107","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3852,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}