{"id":2206,"date":"2024-08-03T19:50:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T19:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:19","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/hop.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/hop.jpg 318w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/hop-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c940eba23792744d961ecdeb45938460 wp-block-paragraph\">Hope is something that has duality about it. It has many faces. <br>&#8230;it springs Eternal&#8230;..as well as being Fleeting. Many times it is the last thing we lose in a tragedy.<br><br>      I have a real uneasy spirit about the upcoming months, until after January. The unraveling of the fabric of our morals as a nation. The complete care of our children is not on the front burner where it should be. It&#8217;s sad that a 10 year old is calling the shots regarding gender issues. Parents afraid to say &#8220;ENOUGH&#8221; are few and far between out of the fear of being given some label that &#8220;offends&#8221; them. What a shame.<br><br>     I have hope. It is true, yet reserved. It is strong, yet bashful. It is one of the key elements that you cannot touch that has kept me moving forward. ~~~ and I am thankful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope is something that has duality about it. It has many faces. &#8230;it springs Eternal&#8230;..as well as being Fleeting. Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/hopp.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}