{"id":1965,"date":"2012-12-15T00:55:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T05:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2013-01-03T00:09:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T05:09:23","slug":"1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/1965\/","title":{"rendered":"We Could All Do With Some Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1966 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 30px 30px 0px;\" alt=\"Candle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Candle.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Candle.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Candle-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Candle-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Candle-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Newtown, Connecticut right now.\u00a0 Words like tragic and horrifying seem inadequate. \u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, I thought we could all do with some hope right now.<\/p>\n<p><b>I hope, or I could not live.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i> The Island of Doctor Moreau<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0H. G. Wells<\/p>\n<p><b>From the death of each day&#8217;s hope another hope sprung up to live to-morrow.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i> The Old Curiosity Shop<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/p>\n<p><b>I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i> Villette<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charlotte Bronte<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Newtown, Connecticut right now.\u00a0 Words like tragic and horrifying seem inadequate. \u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, I thought we could all do with some hope right now. I hope, or I could not live.\u00a0~\u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[825,133,326,428,429,430,431],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charles-dickens","category-everything-else","tag-charles-dickens","tag-charlotte-bronte","tag-h-g-wells","tag-hope-quotes","tag-the-island-of-doctor-moreau","tag-the-old-curiosity-shop","tag-villette"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}