{"id":125,"date":"2024-09-19T18:03:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T01:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2024\/?p=125"},"modified":"2024-09-19T18:03:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T01:03:06","slug":"day-fourteen-stumbling-on-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2024\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Day Fourteen &#8211; Stumbling on Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of you know that after my experiences in 2020 and 2022, I was truly reticent about this year\u2019s journey. While I still struggle to reconcile the current polling with what I consider to be the strongest split screen comparison of two presidential candidates in my lifetime, with each day, each interaction\u2026 that cognitive dissonance is taking up less real estate in my head every day. There is something about laughter between friends. There is reassurance when you look for humanity and, without fail, you find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know what is going to happen. I believe, as I always have, people are inherently good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@jbkmcd?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Julie&#8217;s YouTube Channe<\/a>l<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stumbling on Joy\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/66oZ0CyUtQk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you know that after my experiences in 2020 and 2022, I was truly reticent about this year\u2019s journey. While I still struggle to reconcile the current polling with what I consider to be the strongest split screen comparison <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2024\/?p=125\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[38,2,37,21],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-posts","tag-disturbed","tag-hopeful","tag-overwhelmed","tag-worried"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2024\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2024\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2024\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2024\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2024\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2024\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2024\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2024\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2024\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2024\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}