{"id":1220,"date":"2023-01-08T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samontecruzstudios.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2023-02-22T06:13:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:13:34","slug":"seattle-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samontecruzstudios.com\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Seattle NOW\/CBS Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5yrpCPU5C1c\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This video recounts my healing journey from a serious spinal injury in 2010, to the artist I am today; from breaking my neck &amp; being bed ridden, to becoming a Filipinx goldsmith. Living through such a traumatic accident &amp; the pain that followed, taught me how to surrender to the present moment, how to receive when I could give nothing in return &amp; the importance cultivating of joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I turned to creativity as a way to cultivate joy &amp; reclaim some of my life from the severe, unrelenting chronic pain I experience everyday. Doing things that brought me joy was a way to have pain take up less space in my life. This, in turn, led me to retraining as a goldsmith &amp; opening my own business making custom jewelry, Samonte Cruz Studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My art is now my work and my life, although it still shares that space with the chronic pain I still experience. The art I create through Samonte Cruz Studios feeds my spirit by giving me opportunities to reconnect to my culture, through the ancient traditions my ancestors mastered; goldsmithing &amp; metalwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to Producer Amy Mahardy and the Creative Services team at CW11 in Seattle for helping to tell my story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video recounts my healing journey from a serious spinal injury in 2010, to the artist I am today; from breaking my neck &#038; being bed ridden, to becoming a Filipinx goldsmith. Living through such a traumatic accident &#038; the pain that followed, taught me how to surrender to the present moment, how to receive when I could give nothing in return &#038; the importance cultivating of joy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samontecruzstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samontecruzstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samontecruzstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samontecruzstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samontecruzstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samontecruzstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samontecruzstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samontecruzstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samontecruzstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}