{"id":1475,"date":"2020-06-11T11:35:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2020-06-11T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T18:59:20","slug":"hope-is-not-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/hope-is-not-pretty\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope is Not Pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/images-44.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-609\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/images-44.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hope is not pretty.<br \/>\nIt is not the shine on patent leather shoes<br \/>\nor the flowers on Easter bonnets.<br \/>\nIt is not an airy sense of pleasure<br \/>\nin your chest that says<br \/>\neverything will be okay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hope is the guttural cry of a people<br \/>\nstruggling to rise from despair.<br \/>\nIt is the fierce refusal to accept<br \/>\nhatred as the grounding of life.<br \/>\nIt is looking into the eyes of \u00a0that hatred<br \/>\nwith the grace of transparency.<br \/>\nIt is the deep, deep longing<br \/>\nto bring about justice.<br \/>\nIt \u00a0is trembling with fear and<br \/>\nnot giving into terror.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/girl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1479\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/girl-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/girl-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/girl-600x796.jpg 600w, http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/girl.jpg 662w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHope makes beautiful<br \/>\nour broken and ugly places,<br \/>\nconfers power<br \/>\nchallenges despair.<br \/>\nSo let us hope<br \/>\nLet us hope passionately.<br \/>\nLet us\u00a0speak and act<br \/>\nand stand and march<br \/>\nand live into the hope<br \/>\nthat calls us to create a just future<br \/>\nout of the rubble of despair.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope is not pretty. It is not the shine on patent leather shoes or the flowers on Easter bonnets. It is not an airy sense of pleasure in your chest that says everything will be okay. Hope is the guttural cry of a people struggling to rise from despair. It is the fierce refusal to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/hope-is-not-pretty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hope is Not Pretty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,21,23,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}