{"id":14176,"date":"2015-02-28T17:09:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T17:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-am-an-incurable-romantic-i-believe-in-hope\/"},"modified":"2015-02-28T17:09:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T17:09:45","slug":"i-am-an-incurable-romantic-i-believe-in-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-am-an-incurable-romantic-i-believe-in-hope\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I am an incurable romantic<br \/>\nI believe in hope, dreams and decency<br \/>\nI believe in love,<br \/>\nTenderness and kindness.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in mankind.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in goodness, <br \/>\nMercy and charity<br \/>\nI believe in a universal spirit<br \/>\nI believe in casting bread<br \/>\nUpon the waters.<\/p>\n<p>I am awed by the snow-capped mountains<br \/>\nBy the vastness of oceans.<\/p>\n<p>I am moved by a couple <br \/>\nOf any age \u2013 holding hands<br \/>\nAs they walk through city streets.<\/p>\n<p>A living creature in pain<br \/>\nMakes me shudder with sorrow<br \/>\nA seagull\u2019s cry fills me <br \/>\nWith a sense of mystery.<\/p>\n<p>A river or stream <br \/>\nCan move me to tears <br \/>\nA lake nestling in a valley<br \/>\nCan bring me peace.<\/p>\n<p>I wish for all mankind<br \/>\nThe sweet simple joy <br \/>\nThat we have found together.<\/p>\n<p>I know that it will be.<br \/>\nAnd we shall celebrate<br \/>\nWe shall taste the wine<br \/>\nAnd the fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate the sunset and the sunrise<br \/>\nthe cold and the warmth <br \/>\nthe sounds and the silences<br \/>\nthe voices of the children.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate the dreams and hopes <br \/>\nWhich have filled the souls of<br \/>\nAll decent men and women.<\/p>\n<p>We shall lift our glasses and toast <br \/>\nWith tears of joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Leonard Nimoy, <i>A Lifetime of Love: Poems on the Passages of Life<\/i> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsnquotes.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">wordsnquotes<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an incurable romantic I believe in hope, dreams and decency I believe in love, Tenderness and kindness. I believe in mankind. I believe in goodness, Mercy and charity I believe in a universal spirit I believe in casting bread Upon the waters. I am awed by the snow-capped mountains By the vastness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3GE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}