{"id":5019,"date":"2018-03-01T13:46:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2022-02-12T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T21:30:50","slug":"yearning-for-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/yearning-for-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Yearning for Hope\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yearning for Hope<\/strong>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em> by Earl Martin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today&rsquo;s news beyond our scope:<br \/>\nViolence, wars, refugees fleeing.<br \/>\nOne may wonder, where is hope?<br \/>\nLook deep into faith foreseeing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hope springs eternal in the human breast,&rdquo;<br \/>\nThe words of Alexander Pope.<br \/>\nSooth the soul sorely depressed,<br \/>\nKnowing, &ldquo;where there&rsquo;s life there&rsquo;s hope.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;When life&rsquo;s dark the Poet* opines,<br \/>\n&ldquo;When it&rsquo;s dark enough you can see the stars.&rdquo;<br \/>\nLook well upward for heavenly signs,<br \/>\nAnd cling to the faith that is ours.<\/p>\n<p>*Ralph Waldo Emerson<br \/>\n<em>This poem, written by Earl Martin, was sent to his family on New Year&rsquo;s Eve. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yearning for Hope&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; by Earl Martin Today&rsquo;s news beyond our scope: Violence, wars, refugees fleeing. One may ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,132,166],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6939,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions\/6939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}