{"id":5268,"date":"2017-11-18T11:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T18:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2017-11-18T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T18:13:51","slug":"for-many-days-we-had-been-tempest-tossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/for-many-days-we-had-been-tempest-tossed\/","title":{"rendered":"For Many Days We Had Been Tempest-Tossed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1868.jpg\" alt=\"The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss\" width=\"620\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1868.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1868-120x71.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1868-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>For many days we had been tempest-tossed. Six times had the darkness closed over a wild and terrific scene, and returning light as often brought but renewed distress, for the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Swiss%20Family%20Robinson\">The Swiss Family Robinson<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Johann%20D.%20Wyss\">Johann D. Wyss<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;font-size: 75%;\">Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/8nNVhI2x4UA?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\">Payton Bissell<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many days we had been tempest-tossed. Six times had the darkness closed over a wild and terrific scene&#8230;.\u00a0~\u00a0The Swiss Family Robinson\u00a0by\u00a0Johann D. Wyss<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[785,809,608,808],"class_list":["post-5268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-photos","tag-adventure-quotes","tag-johann-d-wyss","tag-storm-quotes","tag-the-swiss-family-robinson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268","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=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}