{"id":19989,"date":"2024-12-08T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T16:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=19989"},"modified":"2024-12-08T16:52:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T16:52:18","slug":"read-the-bellwether-revivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/read-the-bellwether-revivals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bellwether Revivals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Read The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606 &#x1f4da;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition\u2014broken mirrors and so forth\u2014hope\u2019s not based on any kind of logic, it\u2019s just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes uncomfortably gripping. A touch of The Secret History.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606 &#x1f4da; My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition\u2014broken mirrors and so forth\u2014hope\u2019s not based on any kind of logic, it\u2019s just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/113618214149428920","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnjohnston.info\/post\/3lcsnxx725y2k"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[898,953],"tags":[1673,1599],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-19989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-book","7":"category-posse","8":"tag-benjamin-wood","9":"tag-1599","10":"post_format-post-format-status","11":"kind-article","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5cp","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19990,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19989\/revisions\/19990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19989"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=19989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}