{"id":3279,"date":"2013-04-16T17:14:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T21:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2013-04-16T17:14:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T21:14:54","slug":"hope-springs-eternal-and-bittersweet-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/?p=3279","title":{"rendered":"Hope Springs Eternal and Bittersweet Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you all know of the tragic events that took place yesterday at that most venerable of road races, the Boston Marathon. \u00a0As a runner and Bostonian I am sad and sickened at what took place. \u00a0But having people that I love so close to the scene is even more traumatic. \u00a0My godmother, Rhonda, was about 2 minutes from the finish line when the first explosion occurred. \u00a0Her husband and brother-in-law, Rich and Drew were near there are well. \u00a0Thank the holy spaghetti monster that they are all safe and unharmed. \u00a0But there were a few tense and tearful moments at The Logz yesterday. \u00a0There were many more tearful moments as I watched news reports of the events and heard the news of the horrific injuries and deaths. \u00a0I went for a run in the woods today and offered my prayers up to the wind and rain.<\/p>\n<p>Bittersweet beginnings because today was my first day working at the farm. \u00a0My head and heart are certainly still affected, but being outside in the quiet wind and seeing new life bloom in the earth gave me a small bit of hope that there will be healing. \u00a0Or at least I might be starting to heal. \u00a0Grabbing fresh spinach from the ground gave me a moment&#8217;s pause to realize how simple life can be and how quickly it can change. \u00a0So hug those you love and eat some fresh spinach. \u00a0It&#8217;s that simple!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you all know of the tragic events that took place yesterday at that most venerable of road races, the Boston Marathon. \u00a0As a runner and Bostonian I am sad and sickened at what took place. \u00a0But having people that I love so close to the scene is even more traumatic. \u00a0My godmother, Rhonda, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3280,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamychron.com\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}