{"id":35338,"date":"2017-09-07T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/?p=35338"},"modified":"2023-05-16T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T17:13:06","slug":"always-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/always-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><img alt=\"Always\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-34729 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/607\/2017\/06\/iStock-521033980-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Always\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Dear Josh,<\/p>\n<h4>I just finished reading your book, <a href=\"https:\/\/josh.org\/product\/undaunted-book\/\"><strong>Undaunted<\/strong><\/a>.<\/h4>\n<p>Our lives have been inter-twined for a number of decades. I went to Talbot shortly after you did and we had the same typist for our thesis. I did mine on the same subject\u2014so much so that it looked like I had plagiarized your\u00a0book. \u00a0The truth is I never read your book until you gave me a free copy shortly after yours was published.<\/p>\n<p>I just had no idea how difficult your life was while you were growing up. It was such an encouragement to read your life story. I lived my life as a counselor and just recently retired. Your life story was such an inspiration to me.<\/p>\n<h4>Even though I am now retired, I hope to continue helping people and want to use your life story as one means to help.<\/h4>\n<h3>No matter how difficult the life, there is always hope! Thanks!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Josh, I just finished reading your book, Undaunted. Our lives have been inter-twined for a number of decades. I went to Talbot shortly after you did and we had the same typist for our thesis. I did mine on the same subject\u2014so much so that it looked like I had plagiarized your\u00a0book. \u00a0The truth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23327,"featured_media":34729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"1189","_seopress_titles_title":"Always Hope - Changed Life Stories | Josh.org blog","_seopress_titles_desc":"A retired counselor discusses Josh's book \"Undaunted\" and the fact that, no matter the difficulty or suffering, there is always, always hope.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1189],"tags":[558,350,280],"translator":[],"blog-author":[78],"class_list":["post-35338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-god-on-the-move","tag-changed-life-stories","tag-hope","tag-undaunted","blog-author-josh-mcdowell-ministry-team"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/607\/2017\/06\/iStock-521033980-scaled.jpg","meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35338"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/translator?post=35338"},{"taxonomy":"blog-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-author?post=35338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}