{"id":1580,"date":"2007-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.draumrpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2007-04-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T04:00:00","slug":"h-is-for-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/2007\/04\/09\/h-is-for-2\/","title":{"rendered":"H is for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Why yes, I am posting late in the evening, again, on a weekend&#8230;but not LATE)<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#39;m tackling a classic.   It&#39;s an emotion we all have.  Sometimes selfish, sometimes selfless, but always present, at some level, in all of us.<\/p>\n<p>H is for Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Function: noun<br \/>1 archaic : TRUST, RELIANCE<br \/>2 a : desire accompanied by expectation of or belief in fulfillment &lt;came in hopes of seeing you&gt;; also : expectation of fulfillment or success &lt;no hope of a cure&gt; b : someone or something on which hopes are centered &lt;our only hope for victory&gt; c : something hoped for<\/p>\n<p>The story of Hope in Pandora&#39;s Box is one of the first myths I recall hearing.  It&#39;s probably the biggest parable from the Greek Myths.  And it has a bittersweet ending &#8211; even when you unleash all sorts of horrors on the world, Hope remains.<\/p>\n<p>And Hope lasts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Why yes, I am posting late in the evening, again, on a weekend&#8230;but not LATE)<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#39;m tackling a classic.   It&#39;s an emotion we all have.  Sometimes selfish, sometimes selfless, but always present, at some level, in all of us.<\/p>\n<p>H is for Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Function: noun<br \/>1 archaic : TRUST, RELIANCE<br \/>2 a : desire accompanied by expectation of or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","has-single-img"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}