{"id":717,"date":"2017-12-18T10:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T15:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=717"},"modified":"2017-12-23T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T18:29:25","slug":"the-radical-hope-of-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/the-radical-hope-of-advent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Radical Hope of Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/0684371.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-724\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/0684371-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/0684371-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/0684371-768x525.jpg 768w, http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/0684371-600x410.jpg 600w, http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/0684371.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hope is a fierce thing<br \/>\na tenacious longing<br \/>\na crafting of reality<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A bequest to people who<br \/>\nstand<br \/>\nand march<br \/>\nand fight<br \/>\nand sing lustily into the darkness,<br \/>\nfor we are bearers of light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We bear Godde&#8217;s promises<br \/>\nin our blood and cells<br \/>\nteeth and nails.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We bear that fearsome hope of a people<br \/>\nwho have sacred promises<br \/>\nscorched into our souls.<a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/light_in_dark.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/images-61.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-726\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/images-61.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Fire.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/18260-i-will-be-fierce-1024-x-768.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 a fierce thing a tenacious longing a crafting of reality A bequest to people who stand and march and fight and sing lustily into the darkness, for we are bearers of light. We bear Godde&#8217;s promises in our blood and cells teeth and nails. We bear that fearsome hope of a people who &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/the-radical-hope-of-advent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Radical Hope of Advent<\/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":[13,21,25,19,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717"}],"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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}