{"id":1402,"date":"2016-08-17T20:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T02:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:43:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:43:42","slug":"lettering-illustrations-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/2016\/08\/lettering-illustrations-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Lettering &#038; Illustrations: 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s been a couple months since I posted&#8230; I was planning to work on quotes about hopes and dreams in June, but early in the month June turned into a devastating time\u00a0for Matt and me. My hopes and dreams had come crashing down and were burning around me. Since then I&#8217;ve had little energy to put into something as creative as lettering, not to mention lettering quotes on hope, of all things. Slowly I&#8217;m coming back to myself though, and I&#8217;m trying my hardest to harness some of that elusive thing we all need in order to keep going: hope. Something I found last month that helped me start to build back some hope was a pin on pinterest that spelled HOPE: &#8220;Hold On Pain Ends&#8221;. That really resonated with me\u00a0and it has been a powerful\u00a0reminder to me that pain does end. I just have to keep going and work through it. After all, according to one of my new favorite books, <em>The Fault In Our Stars<\/em>, &#8220;the thing about pain is that it demands to be felt.&#8221; Anyway,\u00a0I might letter that HOPE quote&#8230; and I might not. For now, I&#8217;ll just leave those thoughts here\u00a0with a different quote. It&#8217;s another one\u00a0from the wonderful Jane Austen&#8230; she always seems to know what to say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016_08_17_HalfHope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1403\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016_08_17_HalfHope.jpg\" alt=\"Half_Agony_Half_Hope\" width=\"1024\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016_08_17_HalfHope.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016_08_17_HalfHope-300x284.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016_08_17_HalfHope-816x773.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a couple months since I posted&#8230; I was planning to work on quotes about hopes and dreams in June, but early in the month June turned into a devastating time\u00a0for Matt and me. My hopes and dreams had come crashing down and were burning around me. Since then I&#8217;ve had little energy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[159,75],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lettering-and-illustrations","tag-hope","tag-jane-austen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}