{"id":2259,"date":"2012-11-28T17:29:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2013-06-11T13:06:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T17:06:49","slug":"hobbits-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2259","title":{"rendered":"Hobbits &#038; Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/on-shoulders-of-hobbits.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2261\" title=\"on shoulders of hobbits\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/on-shoulders-of-hobbits-103x150.jpg\" width=\"103\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Hope is more than an engine for endurance; it is the deep, heartfelt understanding that though we may fail in our mission, and though we may perish alone in the dark, the Shadow will pass away and goodness will triumph.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Louis Markos, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/WLWQQG\"><em>On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis<\/em><\/a> (Chicago: Moody, 2012), 128-129.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hope is more than an engine for endurance; it is the deep, heartfelt understanding that though we may fail in our mission, and though we may perish alone in the dark, the Shadow will pass away and goodness will triumph.&#8221;\u009d Louis Markos, On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Hobbits &#038; Hope&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,96,190,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}