{"id":258,"date":"2016-11-10T15:36:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T15:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2016-11-11T14:03:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:03:01","slug":"the-lies-of-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/the-lies-of-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lies of Despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/images-8.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-259\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/images-8.jpeg\" alt=\"images-8\" width=\"247\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despair is the rat gnawing at my gut while it tries to seduce me with lies: you are powerless, you are alone, there is no hope<\/p>\n<p>I refuse to accept the lies of despair.I am not powerless.I am not alone.There is hope. We are not powerless. We are not alone. There <em>is<\/em> hope.<\/p>\n<p>Please join me in rejecting the lies of despair.\u00a0Go where you need to go to not feel alone.Find and nurture your innate power to stand, speak, listen, act on behalf of compassion and justice.<\/p>\n<p>There is hope. And when\u00a0we do not give into the lies of despair we become the embodiment of that hope.<\/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>Despair is the rat gnawing at my gut while it tries to seduce me with lies: you are powerless, you are alone, there is no hope I refuse to accept the lies of despair.I am not powerless.I am not alone.There is hope. We are not powerless. We are not alone. There is hope. Please join &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/the-lies-of-despair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lies of Despair<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}