{"id":562,"date":"2010-02-06T12:41:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T19:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2010-06-16T12:13:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:13:12","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/images\/wpot.jpg\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hope\" src=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/images\/wpotwp.jpg\" alt=\"Hope\" width=\"450\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking Out to Sea Hope<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hope is an interesting state to find oneself in.\u00a0 On the one hand it is trials and tribulations, difficulties and hard times that bring a person to that state, and at the same time\u00a0its a state\u00a0which negates the existence of those travails as one looks out to on the horizon for better times to come.\u00a0 The question that really eats away at me however is, can we last long enough to find ourselves in the midst of those good times hoped for?<\/p>\n<p>Nature has an amazing way of assuaging one&#8217;s fears.\u00a0 It is not unlike finding oneself in the arms of his or her mother, warm and comforted, protected and safe.\u00a0 It gives you exactly what you need to keep going on the path leading you to your destiny.\u00a0 Even man at times helps us in our journey.\u00a0 Mostly in the protection of oneself, man places things in nature that bring a sense of security and protection against\u00a0the, sometimes, unrelenting power of nature.\u00a0 Leaving a lighthouse behind, one that keeps a light burning for those navigating the dangers of the sea also seems to give one solace even while standing on Terra firma.\u00a0 Just know, Hope is always there.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/images\/wpol.jpg\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lookout\" src=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/images\/wpolwp.jpg\" alt=\"Lookout\" width=\"450\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lighting the Way<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature has an amazing way of assuaging one&#8217;s fears.  It is not unlike finding oneself in the arms of his or her mother, warm and comforted, protected and safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[239,240,237,50,238,241,200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}