{"id":33197,"date":"2025-02-15T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T15:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=33197"},"modified":"2025-02-15T22:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T05:14:34","slug":"feb-15-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2025\/02\/15\/feb-15-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 15 Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Desmond Tutu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems these days all I really possess is hope.<\/p>\n<p>Just finished my morning chores, brought in a 40 pound bag of wood pellets, brought in a wood pallet, collected carboard boxes, fed cats, watered cats, put the pellets in the wood stove, cut the pallet for firewood, made the fire, lit the fire.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to collect snow for melt but didn&#8217;t. I had done all that without stopping for a rest. Now I was exhausted and really, really needed a coffee.<\/p>\n<p>I had just enough water left for a coffee.the kettle was on the boil. I was leaned way back in my chair feet up and relaxing for a minute.<\/p>\n<p>I think thats all I have for now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kbyjaUJWWmk?si=DIxYGiJ7yoJcmzYm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu It seems these days all I really possess is hope. Just finished my morning chores, brought in a 40 pound bag of wood pellets, brought in a wood pallet, collected carboard boxes, fed cats, watered cats, put the&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2025\/02\/15\/feb-15-hope\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paBxOx-8Dr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33197"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33237,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33197\/revisions\/33237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}